UP.PT - Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences

This course aims to develop knowledge, skills and competences in the field of artificial nutrition in critically ill patients, namely:
- Understand how to apply the knowledge acquired in different topics, including the assessment of nutritional status, the physiology of the digestive system, enteral nutrition and parenteral nutrition;
- Understand how to implement a culture of multi and interdisciplinarity in the evaluation and discussion of nutritional therapy in your workplace;
- Understand how to intervene in specific areas of nutritional therapy: artificial nutrition in critically ill patients, in surgical patients, in cancer patients and hydro-electrolytic alterations.

Duration: 54 hours total, of which 36 hours of contact and 18 hours of autonomous study, b-learning.