So hello and welcome to this Small Animal Clinical podcast,

brought to you from the Royal Veterinary College in London.

My name is Shailen Jasani.

Today it's my great pleasure to welcome Dan Chan.

Dan is a diplomat of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care

and head of the ECC service at the RBC's Queen Mother Hospital for Animals.

Dan is also a diplomat of the American College of Veteran Nutrition

and provides a hospital with a nutritional support service.

So thanks very much, Dan, for joining me today.

My pleasure.

So, Dan, I'm hoping that we'll be able to get together again in the future

and discuss a variety of topics relating to ECC, as and when you have the time, of course.

But today I actually wanted to focus on nutrition and to discuss nutrition in the context

of sick animals.

So this is clearly an area that has been the focus of quite a lot of attention in both human

and veterinary medicine over

the last decade or two. And there's been a growing recognition of the importance of nutrition

in sick patients and also an understanding of the adverse consequences of malnutrition in this population.

So I wanted to start by asking you if you could explain some of the kind of

adverse pathophysiology that happens in a sick or injured animal undergoing starvation. So basically,

what are some of the consequences of malnutrition that we should be worried about in these patients?

Yeah, that's actually a very interesting topic in that there's also some problems by defining malnutrition.

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