Clinical Nutrition Blog

In catastrophic injury claims, lifelong nutritional needs are a recurring head of future loss. What a dietetic condition, prognosis and needs report should address, and where these claims are most often weak.

A Court of Protection ruling on artificial nutrition turned on absorption, tolerance, refeeding risk and whether decline was nutritional or neurological. No dietitian gave evidence. The questions were dietetic.

Mental capacity and nutritional decision-making intersect in brain injury, dementia, and end-of-life cases. A dietitian expert witness can address best interests assessments, artificial nutrition decisions, and the standard of care in capacity-affected patients.

Errors in total parenteral nutrition and home parenteral nutrition management are a serious cause of patient harm. A dietitian expert witness can assess whether PN prescribing, monitoring, and management met accepted clinical standards and whether failures caused harm.

Learn how nutrition is managed in ICU patients with brain injury, including feeding methods, challenges, and risks of inadequate support.

Enteral feeding supports children with complex medical needs. Learn when feeding errors may become significant in paediatric negligence cases.