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Study Course Description

Todays News in Diet Therapy

Main Study Course Information

Course Code
SUUK_046
Branch of Science
Clinical medicine; Nutrition
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Medical Services; Public Health
LQF
Level 6
Study Type And Form
Full-Time; Part-Time

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor
Structure Unit Manager
Structural Unit
Department of Rehabilitation
Contacts

Riga, Cigoriņu street 3, spk@rsu.lv, +371 67611559

About Study Course

Objective

To promote the acquisition of knowledge about nutritional assessment of patients in hospital, to be able to assess the risks of malnutrition and classify the severity. To be able to explain the potential power type (cuisine diet variations, probe power supply options and opportunities for parenteral nutrition).

Preliminary Knowledge

Anatomy, physiology, pathological physiology, biochemistry, nutrition lesson.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

1.To acquire knowledge of the metabolism of certain diseases. Define catabolic changes: malnutrition, cachexia. Distinguish between enteral and parenteral mixtures, as well as to interpret their features (composition, types of packaging, entry forms).

Skills

1.Explain the types of opportunities and power to assess the advantages in configure groups of patients - surgical therapy and ICU wards: 1) Enteral feeding - a nasogastric tube, PEG, PEJ, ostomy surgery. To be able to explain about the probe-care facilities; 2) Parenteral Nutrition: definition of the term - peripheral venous input, the central venous input.

Competences

1.Recognize and explain specific diet importance and opportunities in certain groups of diseases - inflammatory bowel disease, pancreatic disease, chronic liver and biliary tract, kidney disease, mucoviscidosis (lung, pancreas, liver, kidney polycystic), metabolic diseases (hemohromatoze, Wilson's disease, gout) in the perioperative period.

Assessment

Individual work

Title
% from total grade
Grade
1.

Individual work

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Analysis of clinical examples.

Examination

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% from total grade
Grade
1.

Examination

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Oral exam 50%, work in seminars 50%

Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME
Part 1
  1. Lecture

Modality
Location
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On site
Other
2

Topics

Current affairs in diet therapy
  1. Class/Seminar

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2

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Current affairs in diet therapy
  1. Lecture

Modality
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Other
2

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Nutritional assessment screening
  1. Class/Seminar

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2

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Nutritional assessment screening
  1. Lecture

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2

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Anemia
  1. Class/Seminar

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2

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Anemia
  1. Lecture

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2

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Principles of the Type 2 CD Diet
  1. Class/Seminar

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2

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Principles of the Type 2 CD Diet
  1. Lecture

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2

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Short bowel syndrome
  1. Class/Seminar

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2

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Short bowel syndrome
  1. Lecture

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2

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Pre- , probiotics
  1. Class/Seminar

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2

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Pre- , probiotics
  1. Lecture

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2

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Principles of nutrition for kidney patients
  1. Class/Seminar

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2

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Principles of nutrition for kidney patients
  1. Lecture

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Other
2

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Celiac disease
  1. Class/Seminar

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On site
Other
2

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Celiac disease
Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
32 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Oral)
PART-TIME
Part 1
  1. Lecture

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Other
2

Topics

Current affairs in diet therapy
  1. Class/Seminar

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Other
2

Topics

Current affairs in diet therapy
  1. Lecture

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Other
2

Topics

Nutritional assessment screening
  1. Class/Seminar

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Other
2

Topics

Nutritional assessment screening
  1. Lecture

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Other
2

Topics

Anemia
  1. Class/Seminar

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Other
2

Topics

Anemia
  1. Lecture

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Other
2

Topics

Principles of the Type 2 CD Diet
  1. Class/Seminar

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Other
2

Topics

Principles of the Type 2 CD Diet
  1. Lecture

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Other
2

Topics

Short bowel syndrome
  1. Class/Seminar

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Other
2

Topics

Short bowel syndrome
  1. Lecture

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Other
2

Topics

Pre- , probiotics
  1. Class/Seminar

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Other
2

Topics

Pre- , probiotics
  1. Lecture

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Other
2

Topics

Principles of nutrition for kidney patients
  1. Class/Seminar

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Other
2

Topics

Principles of nutrition for kidney patients
  1. Lecture

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Other
2

Topics

Celiac disease
  1. Class/Seminar

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Other
2

Topics

Celiac disease
Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
32 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Oral)

Bibliography

Required Reading

1.

Basics in Clinical Nutrition. 5th Edition. Editor-in Chief Luboš Sobotka; Associate Editors Simon P. Allison, Peter Fϋrst Remy Meier, Marek Pertkiewicz, Peter Soeters. 2019.

2.

Oxford Handbook of Nutrition and Dietetics. 2020. Edited by: Joan Webster-Gandy, Angela Madden, Michelle Holdsworth.

3.

Clinical Nutrition. 26, 389–399. „Loss of skeletal muscle mass in aging: Examining the relationship of starvation, sarcopenia and cachexia.” David R. 2007. (akceptējams izdevums)