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Medical Nutrition Therapy
✓ The use of a specific nutrition services to treat illness, injury or a
condition/prevention
✓ Uses AND's Nutrition Care Process
Steps in Nutrition Care Process
✓ Nutrition Assessment
✓ Nutrition Diagnosis
✓ Nutrition Intervention
✓ Nutrition Monitoring and Evaluation
Critical thinking/ Clinical Judgement
✓ Active and reflective reasoning that integrates facts, informed
opinions, active listening and observations
Anthropometry
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✓ Obtaining physical measurements of an individual, comparing
measurements to a standard to assess proper growth & development,
and using to evaluate for over nutrition or undernutrition
Height
✓ Direct measurement
✓ Indirect measurement: arm span (tip to tip) recumbent length and
knee height
Weight
✓ Crude evaluation of overall fat &muscle store. Interpretation is affected
by fluid status
Determining Ideal Body Weight
✓ Adults only Hamwi Method
Hamwi Method
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✓ a. Women: first 5 feet = 100 pounds. Each additional inch is 5 pounds.
✓ b. Men: 1st 5 feet- 106 lbs. 6lbs for every inch after.
✓ *Then +/- 10% for small-large frames
✓ * Doesn't account for race or age
Adjusted IBW for amputation
✓ [(100-% amputation)/100] X IBW for original height
✓
✓ % Amputation
✓ Foot 1.5
✓ Hand 0.7
✓ Lower leg (BKA) 6
✓ Entire Leg 16
✓ Forearm 2.3
✓ Entire arm 5
Adjusted IBW Paralysis
✓ Paraplegia--> 5-10% subtracted from IBW
✓ Quadriplegia --> 10-15% subtracted from IBW
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Percent Ideal Body Weight
✓ =(current weight/IBW) x 100
✓ *Weight tells nothing on calories
Percent Ideal Body Weight Evaluation
✓ 91-109%= Appropriate weight
✓ 80-90% = Mild nutrition
✓ 70-79% = Moderate malnutrition
✓ </ 69% = Severe malnutrition
✓ 110-129% = Overweight
✓ >/ 130% = Obese
Body Mass Index (BMI)
✓ Used to determine whether wt. is appropriate for ht. and can indicate
over nutrition or undernutrition
✓ = weight (kg)/ Height (M)2
lbs to Kg
✓ divide weight in pounds by 2.2
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