Affiliates had a very successful Belfast meeting with many interesting and useful presentations, a selection of which can be viewed below:
UGI cancer session:
- Nutrition and pancreatic cancer
Presentation by Sinead Duggan - Emotional distress of oesophageal cancer survivors and their carers
Presentation by Dr Martin Dempster - The role of multi-disciplinary teams in decision-making for patients with recurrent malignant disease
Presentation by Sean Strong
Bariatric presentations:
- Cost-analysis and patient experience of a one-stop bariatric clinic
Presentation by David Bunting / Ian Finley - Nutritional care of the bariatric patient in critical care
Presentation by Dr Christina Ward, bariatric dietitian - LAGB Adjustments, Extended Role
Fiona Sim, Bariatric Dietitian Aberdeen - Late hypoglycaemia following gastric bypass
Conor Magee MD FRCS
Related links
Fiona Macharg, winner of the Best Nurses/AHP poster at Belfast:
Long Term Use of Feeding Jejunostomy Following Oesophagectomy
FMS Macharg, Y Soon, S Singh and SR Preston
Regional Oesophago-Gastric Unit
Royal Surrey County Hospital & St Luke’s Cancer Centre
Current problems: Oesophagectomy significantly impacts on a patients’ ability to recover adequate dietary intake in the early post-op stages.
- Issues with re-establishing oral intake include:
- Partial or complete loss of appetite
- Post-prandial pain
- Nausea and vomiting
- Reflux
- Dysphagia – anastomotic strictures
- Adjuvant chemotherapy
- Dumping syndrome
- Practice varies widely across the country, however, enteral feeding tubes are often removed on discharge or at first clinic review.
