Avaliação do estado nutricional de funcionários de unidades de alimentação do vale do São Francisco

Uma Unidade de Alimentação e Nutrição (UAN) visa fornecer refeições balanceadas e  promover alimentação saudável a sua clientela. Houve um crescente aumento de sobrepeso e obesidade na população nas últimas décadas. Este trabalho teve por objetivo avaliar o estado nutricional de funcionários de Unidade de Alimentação e Nutrição de dois restaurantes universitários um em Juazeiro-BA e o outro em Petrolina-PE. Foram avaliados um total de 24 pessoas, sendo coletado peso, altura, circunferência da cintura e do quadril, e percentual de gordura corporal, além de dados como etnia, sexo, idade e profissão. Utilizou-se o Índice de Massa Corporal (IMC), a relação/cintura quadril e a relação cintura/estatura para avaliar o estado nutricional do indivíduo. Foi observada a maior prevalência foi de indivíduos acima do peso com IMC maior que 24,9 kg/m², tendo circunferência da cintura elevada e excesso de gordura corporal. O presente estudo constatou a maior prevalência de excesso de peso, com de riscos de desenvolvimento de doenças cardiovasculares nos trabalhadores, indicando que os objetivos do PAT precisam ser levados em consideração, fazendo-se necessário assistência nutricional nesse grupo. ABSTRACT Evaluation of the nutritional state of employee of feeding units of the São Francisco ValleyFood and Nutrition Unit (UAN) aims to provide balanced meals and promote healthy food to its clientele. There has been an increasing increase of overweight and obesity in the population in the last decades. The objective of this study was to evaluate the nutritional status of employees of the Food and Nutrition Unit of two university restaurants in Juazeiro-BA and the other in Petrolina-PE. A total of 24 people were evaluated, including weight, height, waist and hip circumference, and percentage of body fat, as well as data such as ethnicity, sex, age and occupation. Body mass index (BMI), hip ratio and waist / height ratio were used to evaluate the nutritional status of the individual. The highest prevalence was observed among overweight individuals with BMI greater than 24.9 kg / m², having high waist circumference and excess body fat. The present study found a higher prevalence of overweight, with risks of developing cardiovascular diseases in workers, indicating that the objectives of the PAT need to be taken into account, making nutritional assistance necessary in this group

International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortiu (INICC) report, data summary of 43 countries for 2007-2012. Device-associated module

We report the results of an International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) surveillance study from January 2007-December 2012 in 503 intensive care units (ICUs) in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe. During the 6-year study using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) U.S. National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) definitions for device-associated health care–associated infection (DA-HAI), we collected prospective data from 605,310 patients hospitalized in the INICC's ICUs for an aggregate of 3,338,396 days. Although device utilization in the INICC's ICUs was similar to that reported from ICUs in the U.S. in the CDC's NHSN, rates of device-associated nosocomial infection were higher in the ICUs of the INICC hospitals: the pooled rate of central line–associated bloodstream infection in the INICC's ICUs, 4.9 per 1,000 central line days, is nearly 5-fold higher than the 0.9 per 1,000 central line days reported from comparable U.S. ICUs. The overall rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia was also higher (16.8 vs 1.1 per 1,000 ventilator days) as was the rate of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (5.5 vs 1.3 per 1,000 catheter days). Frequencies of resistance of Pseudomonas isolates to amikacin (42.8% vs 10%) and imipenem (42.4% vs 26.1%) and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates to ceftazidime (71.2% vs 28.8%) and imipenem (19.6% vs 12.8%) were also higher in the INICC's ICUs compared with the ICUs of the CDC's NHSN