Clinical Nutrition
Overview
The Department of Clinical Nutrition of Wuxi No.2 People's Hospital (Jiangnan University Medical Center) founded in 2003, was formerly known as the Nutrition Room and officially renamed the Department of Clinical Nutrition in 2022. It provides nutritional diagnosis via nutritional testing and assessment for patients with nutritional and metabolic disorders (including nutritional imbalance) caused by various factors, and conducts nutritional therapy using medicinal and non-medicinal nutritional therapeutic products including foods for special medical purposes.
The department has 6 medical staff in total, including 2 chief physicians. It is equipped with body composition analyzers, skinfold thickness calipers, food models and other professional facilities.
Treatment Scope
It mainly offers dietary guidance for patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, nephropathy, hypertension and hyperuricemia; provides intervention guidance integrating nutrition, exercise, medication and lifestyle adjustment for overweight and obese patients; delivers nutritional support for perioperative patients, stroke patients and comatose patients; and offers nutritional consultation for other conditions where nutritional intervention helps facilitate disease recovery.
Technical advantages
Specialized services include medical nutritional weight loss, intervention for metabolic disorders (diabetes, hypertension, fatty liver, hyperlipidemia, hyperuricemia, etc.), chronic renal insufficiency management, geriatric nutrition care, perioperative nutritional management, nutritional care for cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and treatment of various malnutrition conditions such as anemia, gastrointestinal dysfunction, vitamin and trace element deficiencies.
In addition, the department undertakes nutritional risk screening and nutritional status evaluation for inpatients, implements phased individualized nutritional intervention for various diseases, formulates standardized procedures for enteral and parenteral nutritional support therapy, and provides personalized nutritional support and follow-up management plans.