What is Clinical Nutrition?
Clinical Nutrition is a science concerned with the basic knowledge, diagnosis, and treatment of disease that affect the intake, intestinal absorption, and metabolism of constituents of the diet, and to the promotion of health through prevention of diet-related diseases.
Pre-clinical Course to introduce:
Basic principles of dietary requirements and regulation of intake, absorption, and metabolism of all nutrients, and the national and international public health importance of diet to health.
Basic principles of dietary requirements and regulation of intake, absorption, and metabolism of all nutrients, and the national and international public health importance of diet to health.
Clinical applications of these principles can be discussed on relation to:
- Obesity
- Eating disorders
- Lipid disorders
- Intestinal mal-absorption syndrome
- Hepatic and renal failure
- Starvation and malnutrition
- Micronutrient deficiencies
Why is Clinical Nutrition important?
- The development of total enteral and parenteral nutrition has dramatically improved medical care.
- Morbidity and mortality in various conditions have been significantly reduced by nutrition support as reflected by the ultimate criterion of clinical efficacy, the randomized clinical trials.
- Clinical nutrition is an important component in the treatment of acute and chronic diseases and is a cornerstone in strategies for disease prevention and health promotion.
- Inattention to nutrition correlates in these areas results in the increased incidence of and mortality from many potentially preventable diseases.
The outcome criteria that defined effective nutrition training program were related to:
- Adequate assessment of nutritional status;
- Safe and appropriate nutritional support for hospitalized patients; and
- Adequate and appropriate nutritional care incorporating disease prevention in the ambulatory setting.
Referensi:
- Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease, Tenth edition, 2006 (Shils et al)
- Principles of Nutritional Assessment, Second edition, (Gibson, 2005)
Adapted from Lecture Note on Clinical Nutrition by Prof. DR. Dr. Bambang Suprapto.
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