Clinical Nutrition

About the course

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 (surgical patients, 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)

Exhibition
As in previous years, there will be an exhibition on days one and two of the course where we will be joined by suppliers of relevant products for clinical nutrition.

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

Programme

• Nutrition and risk – what can we do?

• Estimating nutritional requirements

• Workshops:

  • Normal BMI

  • Obese

  • Very underweight

• Short bowel syndrome

• Nutrition in IBD

• Ethics of feeding

• Nutrition and the liver patient
  
  Course dinner for delegates and speakers (Leeds City Centre)

Thursday 5 September 2024:

• Practicalities of enteral feeding

• Workshops:

  • PEGs/gastrostomy tubes

  • Jejunal feeding tubes

  • Drugs via NG tubes

  • NGs, nasal bridles, etc.

• Nutrition and the surgical patient

• Preventing the refeeding syndrome

• Nutrition and eating disorders

Friday 6 September 2024

• Pharmacy and parenteral nutrition

• Nutritional nightmares in gut-brain disorders

• Obesity / bariatric surgery

• Kullavanijaya International Guest Lecture: Small bowel transplant 

• Workshops

  • Short bowel syndrome

  • PN issues – working out requirements

  • Management of abnormal LFTs