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- Title
Implementation of the medical emergencies in eating disorders in adults guidance on non-specialist units.
- Authors
Turner, Pete
- Abstract
The Royal College of Psychiatrists recently published data showing an 84% increase in UK hospital admissions for eating disorders over the past 5 years, highlighting the importance of the college’s new Medical Emergencies in Eating Disorders (MEED) guidance. This includes a 79% increase among adults, many of whom are admitted to general medical wards that do not have input from expert eating disorder services. Consequently, the multidisciplinary nutrition support team, nutrition specialist nurses and dietitians have a potentially vital role in implementing MEED to ensure that the appropriate nutritional, fluid and electrolyte management is in place for safe refeeding and avoidance of the potentially harmful underfeeding syndrome. Furthermore, the guidance includes special recommendations for the use of nasogastric feeding in eating disorder patients, which requires input from experts in this field, including specialist nurses and dietitians. This article focuses on the implementation of MEED on hospital wards that do not have input from specialist eating disorders services.
- Subjects
INFECTION prevention; NURSING education; OCCUPATIONAL roles; REFEEDING syndrome; REHABILITATION centers; ARTIFICIAL feeding; FOOD consumption; MEDICAL emergencies; MEDICAL protocols; RISK assessment; DIET therapy; NURSES; PATIENT education; ELECTROLYTES; VITAMIN B1; MICRONUTRIENTS; ANOREXIA nervosa; EATING disorders
- Publication
British Journal of Nursing, 2023, Vol 32, Issue 13, pS8
- ISSN
0966-0461
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12968/bjon.2023.32.13.s8