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Nutrition Support Team

Nutrition Support Team (NST) is a multidisciplinary team consisted of physicians, managerial dietitians, nurses, pharmacists, dentists and other medical staffs, that supports nutritional conditions of inpatients especially with high risk of nutrition disorder or current nutritional problems.

Organization

Twenty-eight board-cer tified members for nutrition therapy, physicians, managerial dietitians, nurses and pharmacists, are now registered in NST (Jul, 2020). Dentists and other medical staffs are also involved in this team.

Activities

NST rounds on patients with high risk of nutrition disorder and difficult cases for managing nutritional condition, at the request from the ward staffs. Clinical and therapeutic course of the patients is highly affected by their nutritional conditions. NST makes a recommendation of nutrition support for the patients, through the assessment and discussion from the specific and multidisciplinary points of view on the nutritional condition. NST Members are giving a series of seminars on nutrition therapy for medical staffs and students and contributing to enhancement of their awareness and knowledge about nutritional care.

Target diseases

NST rounds on patients with any diseases on any floors: especially on the patients with current or high possibility of nutrition disorder, and difficult cases for managing the nutritional condition, upon the request from the ward staffs.

Kazuhiko Fukatsu

Kazuhiko Fukatsu

Departments/Divisions

Surgical Center, Central Supply Service, Nutrition Support Team

Titles

M.D. , Ph.D.

Expertise/Specialties

General Surgery, Operative Medicine, Nutrition Support

Research Interests

Surgical Nutrition and Metabolism, Gut Immunity

Languages

Japanese, English

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