Follow-up of Malnutrition Screening in USINV

Follow-up of Malnutrition Screening in Neurovascular Intensive Care Unit

This aim of the study is to set up a procedure for screening for undernutrition in the neurovascular intensive care unit. This screening procedure follows a specific work concerning undernutrition in thrombolyzed patients (NCT03303820). This work was motivated by the fact that, despite a high frequency of undernutrition in the hospital (at least 30% of patients), undernutrition in neurovascular unit is studied very little. A cohort of thrombolysed patients in 2014 was studied retrospectively. Patients malnourished at the entrance had a non-significant, less good recovery of their stroke (+ 1 Rankin score point at 3 months in malnourished patients at the entrance).

The main objective of this project is to assess, prospectively, the frequency of undernutrition at the entrance to the neurovascular intensive care unit and to evaluate the implementation of the undernutrition screening procedure.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient whose age ≥ 70 years
• Patient hospitalized in Neurovascular Intensive care Unit following a stroke (infarction or cerebral hematoma)
• Francophone patient

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient hospitalized in Neurovascular Intensive care Unit following a transient ischemic attack
• Patient whose age ≤ 70 years
• Patient hospitalized in Neurovascular Intensive care Unit for another reason than neurovascular disease
• Patient opposing the use of his data