The Clinical Nutrition service at the Royal Children’s Hospital provides support for patients with complex nutritional issues requiring Parenteral Nutrition (PN) and intestinal rehabilitation. The Clinical Nutrition service also cares for a number of patients that require PN at home and works alongside the gastroenterology and intestinal transplant teams.

The Clinical Nutrition service consists of:

• Clinical nutrition consultants
  
• Clinical nutrition fellow
  
• Clinical nutrition nurse consultants
  
• Dietitian
  
• Sterile pharmacist’s

The Clinical Nutrition outpatient clinic runs on Wednesday mornings at Desk A2.

Please note: The weight management clinic is run through the Department of Endocrinology, and is an affiliated service.

Referrals

Please see the Services and Clinics tab for more information on being referred to the RCH Clinical Nutrition Service.

Resources

• Home PN patients- long term monitoring
  
• Trace elements
  
• Vitamins
  
• Refeeding Syndrome Guideline
  

Useful Links

Professional bodies:  

• AuSPEN 
  
• ASPEN 
  
• ESPGHAN
  
• ESPEN
  
  
• CDC Growth Charts 
• WHO Guidelines for severe malnutrition 

• Dietitian services
  
• NHMRC clinical guidelines  Management of overweight and obesity in adults, children and adolescents. 
  
  
  
  
  
  

reviewed and updated by Clinical Nutrition team, March 2019