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The Department of Clinical Nutrition is responsible for nutritional treatment in a variety of medical conditions, including supportive treatment for hospitalized and ambulatory patients with diabetes or gastrointestinal disorders, patients following surgery and those hospitalized in the intensive care units and departments of nephrology, oncology, and more.
The goal of the nutritional treatment is to provide the appropriate nutritional program for each medical condition, in order to maintain an optimal nutritional status, thus supporting the patient's abilities to recover from his or her illness, or maintain the best possible health under a given condition.
For hospitalized patients, the department provides individualized nutritional treatment, mainly through special nutritional supplements or diets. The department also helps guide the hospital's nutritional treatment policies, and initiates new treatments using advanced nutritional materials.
A special team in the department works in the Meyer Children's Hospital, comprising dieticians, and specialists in nutrition in children and infants. Among others, the team provides personalized nutrition plans for premature infants, including TPN and specialized treatments for children in the pediatric intensive care unit, pediatric nephrology, pediatric cardiology and pediatric oncology units.
The department works closely with academic departments in Israel and overseas, and is conducting a number of research studies in its field of interest. In the field of preventive medicine the department has a leading role in cardiovascular disease prevention programs, and is now initiating a training program for development of proper eating habits, exercise and weight-loss for children.
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