• Nutritional Therapy

    The Operational Unit is a specialized center in artificial feeding. Its activities are for patients who because of their illness (Alzheimers, Parkinson's disease, Neoplasms) cannot feed properl or because they have to make supplements to their diet

  • Timetables

  • Activities

    In the hospital
    Assessment of nutritional status (anthropometry and impedance analysis)
    Calorimetry for the assessment of caloric expenditure
    Dynamometry for the assessment of muscle strength
    Assessment of nutritional needs (especially calorie-protein and water)
    Prescription of personalised diets
    Evaluation of the non-instrumental dysphagia and prescription of specific diets
    Positioning, replacement and medication access routes for Artificial Nutrition in the short and long-term: Nasogastric Tube, Gastrostomy (PEG); Peripheral and Central Venous Type Catheter
    Prescription and monitoring of enteral nutrition therapy with standard mixtures or for specific pathologies and injecting mixtures with different intake of macro and micronutrients
     Nutritional management of patients with Short Bowel Syndrome
    Instructing the patient and/or caregiver and start of the Home Artificial Nutrition (NAD)

    At Home
    Management and monitoring of patients with NED and NPD, with skilled and dedicated health staff, with a intensive monthly protocol.
    Monitoring of nutritional status, with the help of the Balance of load cells to measure the weight of even bedridden patients.
    Monitoring of the degree of dysphagia of the patients.
    Supply of products and principals for the NAD directly to the patients’ home, with appropriate means of transport.
    Technical assistance 24/24

    Remote Medicine
    Control of access routes by the Medical Nutritionist though Video Call
    ECG with instrumentation for reporting by telematics

    Certifications: Regional Reference Centre for the Home Artificial Nutrition 

  •   Paolo  ORLANDONI
     
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    Dirigente Responsabile
    p.orlandoni@inrca.it 
    071 800 3653
     
       
     
     
    Claudia  VENTURINI Personale Medico c.venturini@inrca.it 071 800 3653
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