Nutritional Support for Liver Diseases

Nutritional Support in Respiratory Diseases

· To learn about the magnitude of the burden of the disease and the systemic involvement of chronic respiratory failure; · To learn about the interactions and complexity of mechanisms leading to undernutrition with compromise of metabolic active tissues, i.e. skeletal muscles; · To learn about the integration of nutritional support in pulmonary rehabilitation including exercise training for pat...

Nutritional Support in Respiratory Diseases

· To understand the importance of weight loss and nutritional depletion in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; · To develop an overview of the results of clinical trials of nutritional support in COPD; · To understand the aims of nutritional support in COPD and how support programmes might integrate with other therapies; · To understand the reasons why nutritional support programmes might be...

Nutritional support in liver disease

It has been recognised for many years that patients with chronic parenchymal liver disease are malnourished. Dr Roger Williams and his colleagues at King's were one of the first to formally document nutritional status in their patients when O'Keefe et al' reported that significant numbers of their patients had clinical, biochemical, haematological and immunological variables thought to be indic...

Nutritional Support in Liver Disease Topic 13 Module 13.2 Nutritional Support in Chronic Liver Disease

Nutritional Support of Intestinal Diseases in Cats

Both physicians and veterinarians frequently recommend a “bland” diet for nonspecific GI upset. When asked “What is the definition of bland diet?” veterinarians often respond “chicken and rice” or “hamburger and rice” or “baby food” or they name a veterinary therapeutic diet. Interestingly, when pressed for a definition, the most common answer is “easily (or highly) digestible” and the second m...