Critical care
The Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Bristol
Children's Hospital offers comprehensive critical care facilities
for infants, children and adolescents with life-threatening disease
and injury. As the lead centre for Paediatric Intensive Care
in the South West, the dietitian provides nutrition support
treatment for host of critical care presentations. A
significant proportion admitted to our PICU are children with
cardiac complications. Other specialties such as
gastrointestinal surgery, burns, neurological complications and
various medical presentations require specialist dietetic
intervention. Children presenting with other conditions such
as renal, cysytic fibrosis or metabolic diseases are managed by
their respective Bristol Royal Children's Hospital specialist
dietitian in collaboration with the PICU dietitian to ensure an
ongoing continuity of care and patient safety.
Nutrition support plays a significant role in our PICU and
the PICU dietitian plays an integral role within the
multidisciplinary team, and continues dietetic management for
children transferred to the cardiac, burns and surgical wards at
Bristol Royal Children's Hospital.
Dietitian guidance
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