On March 15 and 16, Adventia, in collaboration with the Nutrimancha Group belonging to the Spanish Society of Endocrinology, Nutrition and Diabetes (SCAMEND), organized in Ciudad Real (Daimiel), a course on clinical nutrition, aimed at residents of different specialties.

The mayor of Daimiel, Leopoldo Sierra, welcomed the twenty specialists, including speakers and students, who met in the course on clinical nutrition, highlighting the involvement of the participants in continuing their training.

The theoretical-practical training that was given at the Hotel Doña Manuela had the participation of four endocrinologists and two nutritionists from the Nutrition Services of the province of Ciudad Real and was completed with a visit to the site, Motilla del Azuer.

The presentations were organized by the Nutrimancha working group, of which the doctor, Álvaro García-Manzanares, a specialist in Endocrinology and Nutrition at the Mancha Centro hospital, is a member. As García-Manzanares explained, clinical nutrition is “the nutrition that is given to patients when they enter a hospital, that which is given by tube, in the form of supplements, which is popularly known as shakes, or also by vein ”, which also argued that Daimiel has been chosen for its“ strategic location ”in the province.

The objective of the course was to train in hospital nutrition, as well as to unify criteria and detect errors in this area. All this through a series of presentations on the assessment of the nutritional status of the patient, the hospital diet, enteral nutrition, flavor workshops and modification of textures in which they used Bi1 Thickener and Bi1 Clear as well as the new Aromas and concluded with a practical workshop on probe handling and administration method.