SA Home Parenteral Nutrition Unit - Flinders Medical Centre ICCU
The South Australian Home Parenteral Nutrition (SA HPN) Unit is a statewide home parenteral nutrition service which receives referrals from all health care networks across South Australia. The service provides individualised care to adult patients who require parenteral nutrition support at home.
Home Parenteral Nutrition (HPN) is the primary life-saving therapy for patients with chronic intestinal failure (CIF) including both transient-reversible and irreversible CIF, for example, short bowel syndrome secondary to inflammatory bowel disease or mesenteric ischemia, advanced cancer patients with Malignant Bowel Obstruction (MBO), and gastrointestinal dysmotility while their nutritional requirements cannot be met via the oral/enteral route.
The SA HPN Unit is one of the busiest adult HPN centres in Australia, providing HPN services to around 30 patients each year.
The goals of SA HPN service are to improve the quality of life of patients, prevent complications associated with HPN and to prevent hospital readmissions.
Research interests and projects
- Prevention and management of Catheter Related Blood Stream Infection (CRBSI)
- Prevention and management of Intestinal Failure Associated Liver Disease (IFALD)
- Teduglutide injection enrolment and management for patients with CIF and Short Bowel Syndrome (SBS)
- Research member of The European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) Chronic Intestinal Failure (CIF) working group
- Participant of the Australasian Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (AuSPEN), HPN Registry.
SA HPN Professional Team
Dr Steven Galluccio – Director of ICU/SA HPN Unit Flinders Medical Centre
Dr Sharifah Syed Mustaffa – Clinical lead SA HPN Unit/Intenstive Care Unit Medical Consultant
Mona Chen – SA HPN Nurse Consultant
Contact details
Telephone: (08) 8204 6801
Email: Health.sahpnunit@sa.gov.au