In Touch Event Guide


NNNG Annual Conference


DATE: 21ST & 22ND JUNE 2010 VENUE: BIRMINGHAM MOTORCYCLE MUSEUM


Topics include: Day 1 – Ethics – Nutrition Updates: The national picture; Ethics and the Law in Nutritional Support; Mental Capacity Act and Advance Directives; RCP Guidelines: Nutrition at the end of life; Quality of Life for Patients with PEG; Case Discussion: Nutrition at End of Life; Hot Topics – An open forum for delegates to discuss the hot nutritional topics of the day. Day 2 – Trauma – The Metabolic Response to Trauma; Nutritional Requirements in Trauma Patients and the Use of Novel Substrates; Fluid Balance in Trauma Patients; Member Presentations – 5 x 15 min presentations by NNNG Members; Practical issues: The use of feeding tubes in patients with cervical collars and facial injuries; Audit: Use of NG tubes and nasal bridles inserted on patients with base of skull fractures; Wound Healing and Micronutrients: The evidence


Plus: NNNG Annual Conference Dinner: Theme ‘The Fifties’ Cost: • 2 day package members £230; non members £260 • Day delegate member £105; non member £135 • Extra dinner ticket/guest £55 For further information and to register, visit: www.nnng.org


The BPNG Summer Symposium Parenteral Nutrition and the Liver


DATE: 11TH & 12TH JUNE 2010 VENUE: WYCHWOOD PARK CREWE, CHESHIRE


The liver and how it deals with PN, and PN in liver disease


Aims: To understand how the liver processes nutrients and PN components in particular; To have insight in to liver disease and how to optimise nutritional input in affected patients; To be able to formulate appropriate PN regimens for liver patients


Objectives: By the end of the BPNG Summer Symposium 2010 participants will be able to: Discuss the function of the liver and its effect on PN admixtures; comment on nutritional requirements in patients with liver disease; formulate appropriate PN admixtures for liver patients; discuss measures to prevent the occurrence of PN associated liver disease


Topics include: The Liver – Physiology & function; Liver Disease – Presentation and treatment; Nutritional Requirements in Liver Disease; BPNG AGM – A brief overview of activity; Workshops; The Consultant Pharmacist in PN; Business Cases for PN Prescribers; Courses and Training for PN Prescribers; Formulating a Clinical Management Plan and Producing a Prescription; Preventing Long-term PNALD; Neonatal Liver Abnormalities; Case History – PNALD neonatal case; Lipids and the Liver.


Evening entertainment and the opportunity to network with colleagues in the field included.


For further information and booking form, please contact: bpnginfo@googlemail.com


11 BAPEN In Touch No.57 May 2010


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