| NU_IK_01 |
Intermediate |
Nutritional assessment techniques including laboratory tests |
| NU_IK_02 |
Intermediate |
Clinical consequences of poor nutritional status: including wound healing, infection, cardiovascular stability, thermoregulation, respiratory control |
| NU_IK_03 |
Intermediate |
The role of artificial nutritional support in improving surgical outcome – enteral and parenteral. Nutritional supplements |
| NU_IK_03 |
Intermediate |
Mechanics of providing parenteral and enteral nutrition and different routes; pre and post pyloric |
| NU_IK_04 |
Intermediate |
Complications of parenteral and enteral nutritional support |
| NU_IK_05 |
Intermediate |
Consequences of overfeeding: CO2 production, uraemia, hypermetabolism, hypertryglyceridaemia, hepatic steatosis |
| NU_IK_06 |
Intermediate |
Changes in intestinal blood flow with injury/sepsis/critical illness |
| NU_IK_07 |
Intermediate |
Choice of artificial nutritional support in trauma/sepsis/critical illness. Principles of enteral and parenteral feeding including trace elements |
| NU_IK_08 |
Intermediate |
Knowledge of the vulnerability of certain groups [very old, very young] to malnutrition and its effects |