- Docente: Loris Pironi
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/49
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Dietistic (cod. 8470)
Learning outcomes
The student will learn on: malnutrition and catabolism, artificial nutrition, macronutrient requirements in artificial nutrition, access routes to the digestive system, access routes to the venous system, the formulas for enteral nutrition, Parenteral Nutrition admixtures, Monitoring and Complications of Artificial Nutrition, Benign Chronic Intestinal Failure; Nutrition Assessment Techniques, Metabolic Balance in Artificial Nutrition
Course contents
Eiopathogenesis and the pathophysiology of fasting and catabolism associated to the presence of disease
Evaluation of the nutritional status
Indications to nutritional support
Basis of enteral and parenteral artificial nutrition in hospitals and at home
Prescribing and monitoring an artificial nutrition program
Chronic benign intestinal failure
Readings/Bibliography
Guidelines of the Società Italiana di Nutrizione Artificiale e Metabolismo (SINPE), free download at http://www.sinpe.org/ (all'interno dell'Area Servizi)
Guideliens of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism , free download at http://www.espen.org/
ESPEN recommendations: Definition and Classification of Intestinal Failure, free download at http://www.espen.org/
Teaching methods
Lectures and discussion of clinical cases
Assessment methods
Oral examination and discussion of clinical cases
Teaching tools
slides
Office hours
See the website of Loris Pironi
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.