Rational nutritional support in the intensive care unit is often an underestimated component of treatment. But however, this component of treatment has a significant impact on the incidence of infectious and non-infectious complications. Today doctors know about the importance of rational nutritional support, but the most common approach to treatment is empirical nutritional support. It means that treatment is provided without counting individual patient’s needs and the latest clinical recommendations. The article presents the results of a comparative analysis of the effectiveness of empirical and personalized nutritional support. Also there is description of the software developed to automate the calculations of individualized nutritional support. According to the data obtained, patients who received personalized nutritional support had lower levels of nutritional risk, which expresses probability of complications, and higher levels of total protein, which may indicate an activity of catabolic processes in the patient’s body, than patients who received empirical nutritional support. Our software significantly reduced the calculation time of personalized nutritional support. In case of integration our software with software “Clinic” it will help increase doctors adherence to rational nutritional support, which in turn will help reduce the frequency of complications among patients in the intensive care.
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