Clinical Nutrition and Nutritional Support

At the end of this course, students should be able to: 1. enumerate the physiologic function and consequences of deficiencies or excesses of various macro, and micronutrients and trace elements; 2. explain biochemical functions of lipid and water-soluble vitamins and describe coenzyme structure and function; 3. enumerate indications of enteral and parenteral nutritional support and discuss complications of various forms of nutritional support; and 4. describe role of chemical pathology laboratory in the diagnosis, monitoring of nutritional disorders and nutritional support.

Nutritional requirements and nutritional disorders. Biochemical functions of micronutrients and trace elements. Lipid soluble vitamins. Water soluble vitamins. Coenzyme structure and functions, biochemical investigations of various micronutrients associated disorders. Nutritional support in clinical medicine, indications of enteral and parenteral nutritional support, complications of various forms of nutritional support. Role of chemical pathology laboratory in the diagnosis and monitoring of nutritional disorders and nutritional support. 239