Malnutrition

Question 1

MUST

Answer 1

Malnutrition universal screening tool

BMI, weight loss, disease effect

Question 2

PEG

Answer 2

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy

Question 3

Short bowel syndrome

Answer 3

<200cm

Question 4

Need for parenteral feeding in short bowel syndrome

Answer 4

When small bowel <50cm

Question 5

Sepsis and metabolic bone disease are complications of what?

Answer 5

Parenteral nutrition

Question 6

Small bowel transplantation is usually combined with what?

Answer 6

Liver transplantation

Question 7

When might you see massive electrolyte shifts? i.e hypokalemia, hypomagnesaemia, altered glucose metabolism, fluid overload, vitamin/trace element deficiency etc etc?

Answer 7

Re-feeding syndrome

Question 8

Clinical features of re-feeding syndrome

Answer 8

Cardiovascular collapse
Respiratory failure
Bone marrow suppression
Seizures