Nutrition

Question 1

What is Dietitian?

Answer 1

Health professionals that assess, diagnose and treat dietary and nutritional problems

Question 2

What is Malnutrition

Answer 2

deficiencies, excesses, or imbalances in a person’s intake of energy and/or nutrients

Question 3

Types of nutritional interventions

Answer 3

-Oral supplementation
-Enteral nutrition (straight into GI tract)
-Total Parenteral Nutrition (somewhere other than mouth) TPN
-Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)

Question 3

What are macronutrients

Answer 3

The nutrients we need in larger quantities that provide us with energy

Question 4

What is refeeding syndrome?

Answer 4

shifts in fluids and electrolytes that may occur in malnourished patients receiving artificial refeeding

Question 5

Measure of nutrition
Anthropometric

Answer 5

height, weight, body mass index, skinfold thickness, waist to hip ratio

Question 6

Biochemical Measurement
functional or specific nutrients

Answer 6

haemoglobin, iron, calcium, phosphate

Question 7

Biochemical Measurement
Hydration

Answer 7

sodium, potassium, osmolality

Question 8

3 groups of malnutrition

Answer 8

-Undernutrition
-Micronutrient-related malnutrition
-Overweight, obesity