Course description
The Leeds Course in Clinical Nutrition 6th - 8th September 2023
This course is specifically designed to provide a thorough grounding in all aspects of clinical nutrition and:
- summarise national nutrition drivers to provide a foundation for the course
- increase awareness of nutritional compromise and its consequences; give practical guidance on assessment of patients, and discuss particular patient groups (surgicalpatients, those with irritable bowel syndrome, renal disease, eating disorders and liver disease).
- discuss practicalities of feeding in terms of ethics, different methods of feeding and understand more about different techniques to give artificial nutrition.
- establish principles of nutritional importance in extreme clinical situations (short bowel syndrome, refeeding syndrome, parenteral nutrition).
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who should attend?
The Leeds Course in Clinical Nutrition is aimed at you if you’re a professional with an interest in clinical nutrition. It will particularly appeal to you if you have an interest in patient nutrition or if you’re a:
- clinician
- dietitian
- doctor
- hospital pharmacist
- nursing staff member
- others with interest in patient nutrition.
Training Course Content
Wednesday 7 September 2022:
- Nutrition and risk – what can we do?
- Estimating nutritional requirements
- Workshops:
- Normal BMI
- Obese
- Very underweight
- Short bowel syndrome
- Paediatric surgery and nutritional consequences for children and adults
- Obesity/bariatric surgery
- Nutrition and the liver patient.
Thursday 8 September 2022:
- Practicalities of enteral feeding
- Workshops:
- PEGs/gastrostomy tubes
- Jejunal feeding tubes
- Drugs via NG tubes
- NGs, nasal bridles, etc.
- Nutrition and eating disorders
- Ethics of feeding
- Nutrition and the surgical patient.
Friday 9 September 2022:
- Pharmacy and parenteral nutrition
- Nutritional nightmares in gut-brain disorders
- Preventing the refeeding syndrome
- Nutrition in IBD
- Kullavanijaya International Guest Lecture: Managing home parenteral nutrition
- Workshops
- Short bowel syndrome
- PN issues – working out requirements
- Management of abnormal LFTs.
Expenses
- 2022 fee - £665
- 2023 fee- TBC
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