Objectives and competences

Pedagogical objectives:

• To know the epidemiological and pathophysiologic characteristics of the diseases, their etiology and respective nutritional therapeutics
• To improve skills of interpretation and resolution of clinical nutrition scenarios
• To develop skills in the nutritionist-patient communication: to be able to use easy and clear language to transmit dietary and nutritional advices and behavioral advices associated with the prevention or treatment of different diseases

Expected results:

• To acquire knowledge about epidemiological and pathophysiologic characteristics of the diseases, their etiology and respective nutritional therapeutics
• To be able to interpret and to solve clinical nutrition scenarios

Teaching Methodologies

This subject includes a theoretical component, constituted by expositive sessions, where students are frequently questioned and invited to participate. The practical sessions consisted of clinical cases resolution with discussing of different possibilities of approach.
Students are invited to interpret and to solve different clinical scenarios between lessons, and to present them in the practical sessions.

Syllabus

1. Important concepts in Clinical Nutrition.
2. Enteral and parenteral nutrition
   1. Assessment of nutritional requirements
   2. Classification and characterization of different commercial solutions
   3. Institution of nutritional therapeutics and monitoring
3. Thinner or non-intentional weight lost.
4. Epidemiology, etiopathogenesis and nutritional therapy:
   1. Neurologic diseases
   2. Reumatic diseases
   3. Heart failure
   4. Pulmonary diseases
   5. Renal diseases (it includes nutritional therapy for patients undergoing renal replacement therapy)
   6. Kidney stones
   7. Transplant (renal, pancreas, liver, thoracic organs and bone marrow)
5. Oncologic diseases
   1. Metabolic changes cancer-related with influence on the nutritional status
   2. Oncologic therapies and their impact on the nutritional status
   3. Pathophysiology of the head neck cancer and gastrointestinal cancer
   4. Oncologic diseases in pediatrics – nutritional therapy
6. Metabolic stress: sepsis, trauma, burns and surgery