Cystic Fibrosis: Part 1, Andrea Kench, APD and Natalie van der Haak, APD
Specialised CF care has led to a dramatic improvement in survival in the last 4 decades. The evidence for the nutritional management of CF is strong but changes over time, so it is important to be aware of best practise. Andrea and Natalie explain how to implement the Nutrition Guidelines for Cystic Fibrosis in Australia and New Zealand (2017) so dietitians working with CF patients will know how to use them and feel confident.
This webinar covers:
CF Overview –
Aetiology and pathophysiology including gene mutations that causes CF, diagnosis, genotypes and phenotypes, clinical manifestations
Nutrition Guidelines
Processes used to arrive at the guidelines, explanation of PICOS (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome)
Comparison to other guidelines globally
Future directions, areas where more evidence is likely to become available – overweight, obesity, pregnancy
Outline and executive summary of Chapters in Guidelines, including
Role of nutrition care, intervention and recommendations
Nutritional assessment including management of overweight and obese patients
Use of fat soluble vitamins, vitamin D, minerals (particularly iron and sodium), supplements (does antioxidant supplementation with Glutathione play a role?), Pancreatic Replacement Enzyme Therapy (PERT) & acid suppression medication, role of lipase, complimentary therapies
Special considerations such as genetic modulator therapies (ivacaftor)
Management of CF related diabetes
Andrea Kench is the Senior CF Dietitian, APD, Women’s and Children’s Hospital North Adelaide, South Australia
Natalie van der Haak is the Senior CF Dietitian, APD, The Children’s Hospital Westmead, Sydney, NSW
Andrea and Natalie were part of the authorship group and project facilitators for the revision of the NHNIC approved 2017 nutrition guidelines for CF in Australia. They presented, promoted, and launched these guidelines as part of the 2017 European/Australasian and North American CF conferences.
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