Competency information
Details
Perform the analyses to laboratory standard operating procedures:
- tests of malabsorption
- exocrine pancreatic function tests
- amylase/lipase.
Considerations
- The investigation of:
- malabsorption
- inflammatory bowel disease
- exocrine pancreatic function
- acute pancreatitis
- chronic pancreatitis.
- The assessment and management of patients undergoing:
- protein energy balance assessment
- receiving enteral nutrition
- receiving parenteral nutrition
- GI obstruction
- peptic ulceration
- coeliac disease
- pernicious anaemia
- GI bleeding.
- The specialist biochemical tests (e.g. calprotectin, faecal elastase) and other diagnostic modalities used in the investigation of the above disorders.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 1 | Outcome Perform the range of laboratory and point-of-care techniques used in the workplace to investigate nutritional disorders. |
| # 2 | Outcome Perform the clinical and laboratory investigation and analysis and management of nutritional status. |
| # 3 | Outcome Perform the clinical and laboratory investigation and analysis and management of digestion, absorption and pancreatic function. |
| # 4 | Outcome Perform the clinical and laboratory investigation and analysis and management of disorders of iron metabolism and haem synthesis. |
| # 6 | Outcome Work in partnership with other clinical specialisms in the investigation and analysis of nutritional disorders. |