REDOXS trial – important findings
April 19, 2013
REDOXS trial on use of IV and EN high dose glutamine supplementation and potential danger in early MOF or severely septic patients is now published [...]
Malnutrition: the hidden killer in healthcare systems
April 9, 2013
Letter to BMJ
Malnutrition BMJ letter
New Critical Care Nutrition Guidelines
January 16, 2013
Nutrition Support Algorithms and Reference documents for the Nutritional Managements of Critically ill adults have been produced by the Critical Care Programme. These have been [...]
NEW GUIDELINES FOR PERIOPERATIVE CARE
January 3, 2013
Based on the evidence available for each item of the multimodal perioperative care pathway, the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery ( ERAS) Society, the International Association [...]
January 3, 2013
A great opportunity to receive support for your research in difficult economic times is available through the ESPEN Research Fellowships. For more information [...]
January 3, 2013
ESPEN are hosting an Experts’ Course on Intestinal Failure (Course Director: Dr. Jon Shaffer)
Venue: Manchester, Salford Royal Hospital, UK
Date: 8-9th March 2013
For more information: Programme
NICE Quality Standard for Nutrition Support in Adults – November 2012
December 6, 2012
This quality standard covers adults (18 years and older) in hospital and the community who are at risk of malnutrition or who have become malnourished, [...]
MHRA: MEDICAL DEVICE ALERT: MDA/2012/075
November 27, 2012
Chlorhexidine containing medical devices and medicinal products
For more information see MHRA Alert – chlorohexidine.
November 23, 2012
Many thanks to all of you who attended our recent conference.
Integrating Nutrition into Medicine and Healthcare
IrSPEN Conference 2013
The sessions included :
Health economics of nutrition and [...]
Improving Nutrition and Hydration in Hospitals
October 4, 2012
Meeting to Launch NICE Quality Standard
14th November 2012, London
Chaired by Prof Marinos Elias Chair, Topic Expert Group Nutrition Support in Adults Quality Standard, [...]
Oral Nutritional Supplements to Tackle Malnutrition
September 20, 2012
The updated ONS Dossier now available to download
A summary of the evidence base
Managing Overgranulation tissue around PEG sites
August 15, 2012
Warriner L and Spruce P 2012
This paper by Linda Warriner and Pam Spruce describe a process for managing overgranulation tissue around gastrostomy sites, a common [...]
Hospital Food -Irish Times July 2012
July 25, 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2012/0724/1224320675150.html
New name, new Directors new strategy!
June 1, 2012
A lot of work has been going on behind the scenes this year.
We took the time to have significant strategy meetings to discuss the focus [...]
ASPEN position paper on IV fats
April 3, 2012
A.S.P.E.N. Position Paper: Clinical Role for Alternative Intravenous Fat Emulsions
Full paper available from here
March 1, 2012
Cost Associated with DRM in Ireland
A recent publication from Rice and Normand establishes the annual public expenditure arising from the care of people with DRM [...]
Warsaw Declaration on Malnutrition
November 23, 2011
Fight against Malnutrition
The international Conference “Fight Against Malnutrition – Two decades of opportunities” took place in Warsaw on October 6th. ESPEN and POLSPEN [...]
October 12, 2011
National and International line up of speakers confirmed!
Inaugural IrSPEN Conference 2011
July 8, 2011
British Artificial Nutrition Survey reports on numbers of children and adults in the community in the UK on either enteral or parenteral feeding.
BAPEN Nutrition Screening Week 2010
July 8, 2011
Incidence of Malnutrition in Irish Hospitals and care Homes.
KEY POINTS nsw 2010.
1 in 3 Irish are malnourished on admission to hospital
March 29, 2011
Recently published results of BAPEN Nutrition Screening Week which also looked at Irish hospital and care home patients found that more than 1in 3 people [...]
New guidelines published on the surgical management of acute intestinal failure
January 21, 2011
The Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (www.asgbi.org.uk) produced the following guidelines in Sept 2010
The surgical management of patients with acute intestinal failure
Tackling malnutrition: Need for a new approach
January 21, 2011
Report from IGG meeting Trim 26.11.10
IrSPEN SpR Nutrition Study Day
January 14, 2011
The inaugural IrSPEN Nutrition Study Day was held in RCPI On 7th January 2011.
The programme and all presentations are available under the courses and events [...]
A Picture of Ageing Research: Ireland, North and South
November 24, 2010
http://www.ucd.ie/research/newsevents/latestnews/mainbody,71278,en.html
‘20 million people in EU with malnutrition’ EU Parliament told
November 10, 2010
20 million people in EU suffer from malnutrition;
The health-related costs of malnutrition are estimated to be as high as 120 billion euros per year
Nutrition Day [...]
Increased incidence of Malnutrition
November 8, 2010
32% of patients admitted to Irish hospitals are at risk of malnutrition, the majority of these (75%) being at high risk.
These are the results from [...]
September 24, 2010
IrSPEN launch to medical media September 2010
IrSPEN Press Release Sept 28th 2010
Safefood Nutrition Exchange Programme
September 24, 2010
Safefood Nutrition Exchange Flyer 2010-2011
Taskforce Needed to Tackle Malnutrition
June 18, 2010
A new report from UCD suggests that malnutrition in older people could be costing the State €1.5 billion a year.
Irish Medical Times 18.06.10 (PDF)
Irish Times: Report notes malnutrition threat to elderly
June 18, 2010
The UCD Institute of Food and Health has today issued a report that it says highlights the threat of malnutrition to the over 65s [...]
UCD IFH Nutrition and Ageing Report June 2010
June 18, 2010
The UCD Institute of Food and Health intends to translate its research activity into both the economic and policy spheres of Irish Society. In order [...]
BAPEN Consensus Guidelines on IV Fluid Therapy
June 8, 2010
From October 2006 the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, SARS, BAPEN Medical, the Intensive Care Society, the Association for Clinical Biochemistry and [...]
Prague Declaration – First Anniversary Approaches!
June 4, 2010
On 11th June ENHA joined with the Czech Presidency of the EU, EU health ministries, ESPEN, health care professionals and health insurance groups [...]
MEPs call for action on malnutrition by EU Commission
June 3, 2010
Members of the European Parliament’s Environment, Health and Food Safety committee this week voted for the third time for the European Commission to fund research [...]
Joint Trent BAPEN annual meeting
May 20, 2010
Joint Trent BAPEN annual meeting and Gastro-intestinal SpR Training Day
22nd September 2010, Leicester Tigers. PROGRAMME – to be confirmed
Enteral Nutrition
Suitability of PEG placement – Role [...]
Educational Program Helps Prevent Catheter-Associated Infections
May 18, 2010
(Albany, NY, February 9, 2010) To help consumers avoid the dangerous infections inherent with prolonged catheter use, the Oley Foundation has developed a second module [...]
