DIETETICS DEPARTMENT:
A dietician is an expert in dietetics that is, human nutrition and the regulation of diet. Dietician plays a key role in the treatment and management of all disease conditions, especially ailments such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiac, renal and gastrointestinal disease. ACE Heart & Vascular Institute has well experienced dieticians who provide nutritional care and counselling to patients in all age groups. Our department provides OPD services in Mohali as well as diets for indoor patients also.
FUNCTIONS:
- Nutritional Care of Patients
- Food service management
- Upcoming activities.
IPD SERVICES:
The department of diabetics provides normal, modified & therapeutic diets to indoor patients. A careful dietary history of each admitted patients is taken. Their blood parameters are reviewed to assess his / her nutritional status and diet is provided as per the recommendations of the treating doctor. Extensive ward rounds are taken for this purpose and later to check the compliance with the prescribed diet and / or to carry out any modifications as per requirements of the patients. All the ward patients on therapeutic diets / feeds are given diet charts bearing detailed dietary instructions to be followed at home at the time of discharge. Follow up of these patients is done in the OPD diet clinic.
OPD DIET CLINIC:
The OPD patients referred from various doctors are given counselling in the diet clinic. A careful dietary history, investigations & BMI of the patients are reviewed at the time of counselling and customized dietary advise is accordingly given.