Our department is proud to serve the patient community and their families. We provide state-of-the-art evaluation and treatment for patients who require parenteral nutrition and enteral feedings and who have complex nutritional and metabolic disorders, including obesity.
Highlights
Nutritional assessment and prescription;
Specialized nutritional testing, such as indirect calorimetry and bioelectrical impedence;
Intravenous access procedures including insertion of long-term venous access catheters such as implanted ports and tunneled catheters;
Placement of tubes for enteral feeding;
Placement and management of peripherally inserted central venous catheters (PICC) for inpatients and outpatients at the BWH;
Surgical and dietary treatment of morbid obesity;
Treatment of patients who are overweight and obese through the
Program for Weight Management;
Therapies for:
- wound healing
- fistula closure
- complex gastrointestinal problems
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