Nutrition in Liver Disease - a Holistic Approach

Purpose

To gain confidence in identifying liver conditions requiring nutritional interventions and provision of relevant and practical advice to patients.

Learning Outcomes

• Discussion of the causes and contributing factors of malnutrition and nutrition related problems requiring intervention for liver disease.
• Understand the nutritional consequences of compensated and decompensated liver disease with the presence or absence of liver cirrhosis.
• The role of the dietitian in treating patients with alcohol liver disease.
• Identification of non-nutritional factors that will impact the nutritional care of the patient.
• Employment of food first strategies to reduce supplement use in appropriate groups of patients.   
• Use of Anthropometry in the nutritional assessment and monitoring of patients with Liver disease.
• Alcohol liver disease
• Identify when enteral feeding should be considered in patients with liver disease.
• Weight reduction in NAFLD and role of reversal of fibrosis.

Audience

Band 5-7 Dietitians

Method

Lecture, Case study & Discussions (virtual presentation day 2)

 

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