Looking for conferences or study days to attend over the coming year? Here are some ideas of events which may be of interest.
CCSG Study Day
Following on from the huge success of our 2023 study, 'Let’s learn all a’bowel’ it!', the committee is already busy planning next year's study day.
Please see Annual CCSG Study Day for more details as they are announced, as well as information on our previous study days.
If you attended the 2023 study day, face to face or virtually, the recordings are available to you via the link sent to you in the post-event email.
Introduction to Critical Care Dietetics
The very popular Introduction to Critical Care Dietetics course is back and has dates available after selling out last in 2023!
The course aims to improve your awareness of the dietetic and physiological principles that are essential to working in the critical care setting, whilst supporting you to develop the confidence required to autonomously work in this environment.
The course is divided into 2 days of pre-course learning via the BDA Learning Zone and a 1-day classroom event (virtual option available or face-to-face option at the BDA offices in Birmingham).
This course is aimed at those new to working in critical care, especially those working in isolation without a team of critical care dietitians to support them. It is aimed primarily at band 6’s and 7’s who have just moved into the specialist of critical care or having to provide clinical cover to this area. They will be working in the area but not experienced.
Topics covered broadly pertain to the following five themes:
- International guidelines and unit protocols
- Assessing nutritional risk, biochemistry and refeeding syndrome
- Metabolic response, energy and protein targets, and effects of critical illness on nutritional interventions
- Nutrition therapy routes: Enteral nutrition (EN) and Parenteral nutrition (PN), routes for EN and PN
- ICU stepdown, handover and rehabilitation
See the BDA Event calendar for upcoming dates and the Introduction to Critical Care Dietetics page for further information about the course and to book your place.
International conferences
ASPEN 2023 Nutrition Science & Practice Conference - Tampa, Florida - 2nd-5th March April 2024
https://www.nutritioncare.org/conference
Intensive Care Society State of the Art - Liverpool - 18th-20th June 2024
Intensive Care Society | SOA Homepage (ics.ac.uk)
ESPEN 46th Congress on Clinical Nutrition & Metabolism - Milan, Italy - 7th-10th September 2024
ESICM 37th Annual Congress - Barcelona, Spain - 5th-9th October 2024