Topic 21 - Consequences of Diabetes Mellitus on the Nutritional Status

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TOPIC 21 - Programa

  • Topic 21

    14 de abril de 2024

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Topic 21 - Consequences of Diabetes Mellitus on the Nutritional Status

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Life-Long Learning Courses

To identify different factors that may favour malnutrition in patients with neurological diseases. To understand the main characteristics of dysphagia and its relevance for nutritional support in patients with neurological diseases. To know the gastrointestinal consequences of neurological disease, relevant for nutritional support. To recognize the clinical consequences of malnutrition in patients with neurological diseases. To know the deleterious consequences of energy and protein deficits in acute brain and spinal injuries. To know the most appropriate macronutrients needs: amount, time, and route. To know the reasons for undernutrition and the strategies to treat them. To understand the most frequent reasons for nutrition in a stroke patient. To know the compulsory assessment leading to decision of nutritional support. To understand the respective indications of oral and enteral feeding, and the best enteral feeding route according to the clinical situation. To know the outcome of a stroke patient receiving enteral nutrition. To know about nutritional intervention in patients suffering from Multiple Sclerosis or Parkinson's disease. To know the problems of clinical decision making in the timing/safety/efficacy of PEG tube feeding in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients. To understand the clinical challenge of establishing and maintaining a tube feeding in neurological patients with advanced dementia. To discuss the indications for gastrostomy in neurological patients with advanced dementia. To know the ethical, legal, and moral implications of nutritional support in patients with neurodegenerative disorders with progressive dementia. Topic 25 - Nutritional support in neurological diseases

Topic 25

Nutritional support in neurological diseases