[Clinical management in nutrition units].

Introduction: total quality management (TQM) is an element of excellence in the practice of clinical nutrition that is less recognized than others such as continuous training or research. Objective: to discuss the foundations of quality management tools such as TQM or continuous quality improvement, to describe major achievements in this field in nutrition units, and to define the main challenges for the future. Results: in recent years, at least 9 clinical nutrition units have implemented TQM with quality certification by an external agency, in most cases AENOR and in accordance with the ISO 9001 standard.

[COVID pandemic and clinical nutrition response in Spain: results of a national survey].

Introduction: the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has forced major organizational and care changes in the health system. However, in Spain, the circumstances suffered by the health professionals who have cared for pandemic patients from a clinical nutrition standpoint has remained unknown up to this moment. Objectives: the management and care changes made in clinical nutrition units in Spain, and their impact on clinical practice are described.

[Home and Ambulatory Artificial Nutrition (NADYA) Group Report. Home parenteral nutrition in Spain, 2018].

Aim: to communicate home parenteral nutrition (HPN) data obtained from the HPN registry of the NADYA-SENPE group (www.nadya-senpe.com) for the year 2018 Material and methods: descriptive analysis of the data collected from adult and pediatric patients with HPN in the NADYA-SENPE group registry from January 1st, 2018 to December 31st, 2018.

[Spanish home enteral nutrition registry of the year 2016 and 2017 from the NADYA-SENPE Group].

Objective: to present the results of the Spanish home enteral nutrition (HEN) registry of the NADYA-SENPE group for the year 2016 and 2017. Material and methods: from January 1st 2016 to December 31st 2017, the HEN registry was recorded and afterwards a further descriptive and analytical analysis was done. Results: in 2016, 4,578 active patients were recorded and prevalence was 98.

A home enteral nutrition (HEN); spanish registry of NADYA-SENPE group; for the year 2013.

Aim: To present the results of the Spanish home enteral nutrition (HEN) registry of the NADYA-SENPE group for the year 2013.

Material And Methods: From January 1st to December 31st 2013 data was recorded for the HEN registry and further descriptive and analytical analysis was done.

Results: In this period 3 223 patients (50.

[Diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular risk: Working group recommendations of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease of the Spanish Society of Diabetes (SED, 2015)].

The present paper updates the Clinical Practice Recommendations for the management of cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) in diabetes mellitus. This is a medical consensus agreed by an independent panel of experts from the Spanish Society of Diabetes (SED). Several consensuses have been proposed by scientific and medical Societies to achieve clinical goals.

[Diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular risk: Working group recommendations of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease of the Spanish Society of Diabetes (SED, 2015)].

The present paper updates the Clinical Practice Recommendations for the management of cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) in diabetes mellitus. This is a medical consensus agreed by an independent panel of experts from the Spanish Society of Diabetes (SED). Several consensuses have been proposed by scientific and medical Societies to achieve clinical goals.

Home enteral nutrition in Spain; NADYA registry 2011-2012.

Objective: To describe the results of the home enteral nutrition (HEN) registry of the NADYA-SENPE group in 2011 and 2012.

Material And Methods: We retrieved the data of the patients recorded from January 1st 2011 to December 31st 2012.

Results: There were 3021 patients in the registry during the period from 29 hospitals, which gives 65.

[Treatment of calculi not easily seen with radiology using extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy. Value of contrast media].

Currently, most calculi can be treated with shockwave extracorporeal lithotrity regardless their location within the urinary apparatus or their physico-chemical features. In order to optimize results only medical criteria for patient's selection should be taken into account. Certain type of calculi can obstruct adequate radioscopic viewing by not allowing correct centring for shockwave emission.

[Prevention of recurrence of superficial tumors of the bladder with intravesical epirubicin].

Twenty-six patients with surface vesical tumor receiving epirubicin are included for prophylaxis of relapse following surgical exeresis. The dosage used was 15 endovesical instillations of 50 mg in 50 cc sterile water, one instillation a week during the first month followed by once monthly to complete a year. After an average follow-up of 14 months a percentage of 19% relapses were observed with a relapse are of 1.