Surgical Metabolism
SURG5012
The aims of the unit are for the student to acquire knowledge of body composition in health and malnutrition and to understand adaptive response of the body to stress, trauma and sepsis. By the end of the unit the student will become competent in providing enteral and parenteral nutritional therapy to metabolically compromised patients.Content includes body composition in health and malnutrition; measurement of malnutrition; sequence of stress response; enteral nutrition and parenteral nutrition.
Unit of study details
Unit of study level: Postgraduate
Credit points: 6
Commencing semesters: 2
Further unit of study information
Unit of study handbook: SURG5012
Costs and scholarships information: Costs and Scholarships
Final dates to withdraw from units of study: Census Dates
Available for study abroad and exchange: No