Core Group Updates BAPEN Medical


RUTH MCKEE Chair BAPEN Medical


BAPEN Medical Teaching Day 2012 was held as one of a number of teaching days at DDF on Sunday 17th June in Liverpool. The Topic was ‘Nutrition and Liver Disease’. Because of the parallel teaching days from gastroenterologists, surgeons and paediatricians, we had people who attended specific sessions as well as over 100 who attended throughout the day. In the morning, talks on malnutrition for both macro and micronutrients in liver disease were followed by a debate on the treatment of non alcoholic fatty liver disease by medicine or surgery. The afternoon was taken up by the practicalities of nutritional management of liver disease, moving from stable outpatients to the critically ill transplant patient, and illustrated by case presentations. DDF 2012 proved to be a stimulating forum


for BAPEN Medical members and the main problem was the difficulty in deciding which of several interesting sessions to attend. The main BAPEN Medical session is described in detail in the BAPEN at DDF Conference report, and covered


‘Feeding at the end of life and in other difficult circumstances’. We felt that both sessions were attended by a wider spectrum of people than is usual at a standard BAPEN meeting and certainly attendances were high and feedback positive. BAPEN Medical is involved in two other


meetings in the autumn. The Pancreatic Society meeting will be held at Cameron House, Loch Lomond, from Wednesday 14th to Friday 16th November 2012. On Wednesday 14th, the British Intestinal Failure Alliance meets at this venue, with a parallel session running for the UK Endoscopic Ultrasound Users Group. On Thursday 15th, BAPEN Medical has an all day parallel meeting with the Pancreatic Society. The main disease problems of acute pancreatitis, chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer are covered, with two parallel tracks with nutritional and interventional topics running for most of the day. Topics include vitamin and trace element use in chronic pancreatitis,


investigation and management of pancreatic exocrine deficiency,


perioperative nutritional support in pancreatic cancer, refeeding syndrome in chronic pancreatitis and fistula management in severe acute pancreatitis. An international array of speakers have accepted invitations, including Frederico Bozzetti of Milan, speaking on nutritional support in cancer and Dana Andersen of Baltimore, speaking on balancing endocrine and exocrine failure in chronic pancreatitis. BAPEN Medical trainee members who have an abstract accepted for this meeting are offered a subsidy for registration by BAPEN Medical. See www.pancsoc.org.uk. At the BAPEN ‘Delivering excellence in Clinical


Nutrition’ meeting on 3rd and 4th December, BAPEN Medical will offer an ESPEN Life Long Learning session on Nutrition and Respiratory Disease. This meeting promises a useful mix of the launch of BAPEN decision trees on Nutrition, with the launch of the Nutrition Society’s latest book and is to be held at Yarnfield Park, Stone, Staffordshire.


BAPEN Reports


BAPEN are continuously working as an Association, and with other likeminded Associations, to collate information and produce reports on current nutritional issues affecting hospital, community and social care. BAPEN has recently produced a number of new reports that are now available to purchase or download via the BAPEN office and website.


Reports • Annual BANS Report 2011 • Improving Nutritional Care & Treatment: Perspectives & Recommendations from Population Groups, Patients & Carers


• Combating Malnutrition: Recommendations For Action • Nutrition Screening Week 2011 Results • Malnutrition in Sheltered Housing Report • British Consensus Guidelines on Intravenous Fluid Therapy for Adult Surgical Patients - GIFTASUP


www.bapen.org.uk BAPEN In Touch No.66 August 2012 14


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