PubMed · 4595398
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E A Stead. 1974. Walter Kempner: a perspective.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4595398/
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This article describes nutritional therapy for hemorrhagic gastro-intestinal diseases. The aim of this therapy is to protect and to accelerate cure of hemorrhagic lesion with rapid recovery of general condition. The accurate judgement for fluid therapy and contents, volume and timing of dietetic therapy is very difficult. However, it should always be considered, that excellent nutritional therapy influences prognosis of hemorrhagic digestive diseases to a great degree for its medication.
A "Sistema de Apoio à Decisão para Avaliação do Estado Nutricional e Prescrição de Dietas" called "WinDiet" was developed. The system was developed on a computer compatible to IBM-PC standard. For system processing procedures through the computer, that is, interpretation, compilation, table generation en others, it was selected the Delphi version 1.0 software, from Borland International, for its using facilities, data basis accomplishment, communication environment and mainly an ample availability of mathematic, impression and programming resources besides allowing for all the programming operations to be accomplished on Windows environment. Knowing the procedures for nutritional evaluation and diet prescription was possible by consulting to text books, periodicals and the area experts. This system allows for individual nutritional assessment applying the anthropometric methods such as weight, height, skinfold thickness measurings, the lab methods such as albumin, transferrin, height/creatinin index and others, the dietary methods by food consumption recall, and the clinical methods that give emphasis to pathological antecedents and indicative sings of nutritional status. The software also turns possible to prescribe and calculate diets from recommendation besides having an actual data basis which may be changed or modified. Yet it maintains the individual description from all evaluation and menus, emitting its complete reports. It was verified that it reduce significantly the working time and increase the precision of estimate and nutritional diagnosis. Thus, the WinDiet may be used in nutritionist's offices, ambulatories, hospitals as well as on nutritional researches and education.