NUTRIC Score (nutritional risk in critically ill)
NUTRIC Score (Heyland 2011) for ICU nutrition risk: age, APACHE II, SOFA, comorbidity count, days from hospital to ICU, and IL-6 each banded; total 0-10, >= 6 is high nutritional risk.
Open the calculator → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Example
- Age
- 55 years
- APACHE II score
- 18
- SOFA score
- 6
- Number of comorbidities
- 1
- Days from hospital to ICU
- 0
- IL-6
- 0 pg/mL
Result: NUTRIC 3 of 10: low nutritional risk per Heyland 2011 (cutoff >=6).
The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.
What the result means
- 0-5
- Low nutritional risk per Heyland 2011.
- >=6
- High nutritional risk per Heyland 2011 (cutoff >=6); benefits most from aggressive nutrition therapy.
What you enter
- Age
- APACHE II score
- SOFA score
- Number of comorbidities
- Days from hospital to ICU
- IL-6 (optional; omit for the modified NUTRIC, which is the usual form)
How this is calculated
Heyland DK, Dhaliwal R, Jiang X, Day AG. Identifying critically ill patients who benefit the most from nutrition therapy: the development and initial validation of a novel risk assessment tool. Crit Care. 2011;15(6):R268. Read the source ↗
A reference and educational tool. Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a substitute for clinician judgment.