🥩 Critical Illness Nutrition Risk Score (mNUTRIC)
This tool computes the modified NUTRIC (mNUTRIC) score to assess nutrition risk in ICU patients, where ≥ 5 identifies high risk.
Critical Illness Nutrition Risk Score (mNUTRIC)
Age
APACHE II score
SOFA score
Number of comorbidities
Days from admission to ICU
When to use
Use to stratify critical-illness nutrition risk and identify patients who benefit most from early aggressive nutrition support.
How it works
Sum age, APACHE II, SOFA, comorbidity count, and pre-ICU stay (0–9). 0–4 low risk; 5–9 high risk → early aggressive nutrition with monitoring.
Key points
- mNUTRIC drops IL-6 from the original score, making it usable where IL-6 is unavailable while preserving risk stratification. (original synthesis · not guideline verbatim)
- It suits mechanically ventilated patients in whom dietary and weight history cannot be obtained.
- High-risk patients gain more from early enteral nutrition and progressive target achievement.
References
- Heyland DK, et al. Identifying critically ill patients who benefit the most from nutrition therapy: the NUTRIC score. Crit Care 2011.
- Rahman A, et al. Identifying critically-ill patients who will benefit most from nutritional therapy: mNUTRIC validation. Clin Nutr 2016.
Decision support for licensed clinicians only; not a substitute for clinical judgement, diagnosis or local protocols.