What types of conditions do SGH Dietitians treat?
SGH Dietitians support a wide range of clinical specialties and work with patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
They provide medical nutrition therapy for numerous conditions. Some include:
- Critical Care / Burns: Nutrition for trauma, sepsis, wound healing, and ICU recovery
- Neurology: Stroke, Parkinson’s, motor neuron disease, and traumatic brain injury
- Weight Management: Medical and surgical weight management
- Renal: Chronic kidney disease, dialysis, and transplant support
- Diabetes: Type 1, Type 2, Intensive insulin management (including insulin pump and advanced carbohydrate counting), gestational diabetes
- Cardiology: Heart failure, hyperlipidemia, coronary artery bypass graft, LVAD, NSTEMI
- Gastroenterology: IBD, IBS, liver disease, short bowel syndrome, stoma care, esophagectomy, pancreatitis
- Geriatrics: Malnutrition, sarcopenia, frailty, dysphagia, osteoporosis, Alzhemer's
- Nutrition Support: Enteral nutrition, parenteral nutrition, oral nutrition supplements, refeeding syndrome
- Oncology: Chemotherapy, radiation therapy, palliative care, surgery, cachexia
- Haematology: Leukemia, myeloma, graft-versus-host disease, hematopoietic stem cell transplant
- Organ Transplant: Liver, kidney, heart and lung transplant nutrition management
- Rehabilitation: Stroke, amputation, cancer recovery, and nutrition for function rebuilding
- Eating Disorders: Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, OSFED, ARFID, and refeeding syndrome
Dietitians work closely with doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and the food services department to personalise nutrition care based on each patient’s medical, dietary, and psychosocial needs.