This course is for clinicians with adults patients not paediatric patients.
Day 1 will cover aspects of type 1 intestinal failure including causes and prevention, refeeding, requirements, short term access, bowel obstruction, choosing a PN bag and managing metabolic complications in the short term.
Day 2 will cover aspects of type 2 intestinal failure and will focus on the management of enterocutaneous fistula and high output stomas, fistuloclysis/distal feeding, maximising enteral nutrition, pharmacology issues, management of chronic pain and dysmotility.
Day 3 will cover type 3 intestinal failure and will focus on home parenteral nutrition including the national home parenteral nutrition framework, monitoring patients on HPN, complications such as infections, metabolic and abnormal LFTs, quality of life, malignancy, intestinal rehabilitation and the patient perspective.
Recording and on-demand access –
There will be a full recording of this 3 day course, which will be available for 12 weeks for people to catch up on. This will include all video lectures and presentation talks.
(note the patient perspective talk may not be available for recording due to the patients choice)
This course grants 6 CPD points per day and 18 CPD in total for this 3 day course as approved by the ACPGBI.
