Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 2019; 113(2): 270-271

The Lack of Nutritional Counseling during Hospitalization

Luiza Antoniazzi

DOI: 10.5935/abc.20190172

This Short Editorial is referred by the Research article "Quality of Intra-Hospital Nutritional Counseling in Patients with STEMI in the Public and Private Health Networks of Sergipe: The VICTIM Register".

During the nutritional follow-up of hospitalized individuals, the nutritionist has as activities to perform the diagnosis, dietary prescription, supervise the distribution of the diets and evaluate their acceptance, and also perform nutritional counseling so that these individuals understand how a standard specific diet may be more appropriate taking into account their diagnoses and nutritional status. The number of nutritionists issued by Resolution 600 of 2018 of the Federal Council of Nutritionists is 1 professional every 15 beds of high complexity and every 30 beds of medium complexity.

Lima et al. evaluated in an article published in this edition whether nutritional counseling was performed in the hospital environment for patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) and the quality of this orientation. The authors found that 57.6% of the individuals hospitalized in the public network and 70.3% private hospitals, both in Sergipe, Brazil, had received in-hospital nutritional counseling.

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