AuSPEN provides a number of educational and research based resources to its members. This includes clinical journals, clinical practice guidelines, webinars and much more. To become a member of AuSPEN and gain access to these resources click here.

JULY 2023

AuSPEN endorsed Australian and New Zealand Paediatric Critical Care Nutrition Support Guidelines

The updated AuSPEN endorsed Australian and New Zealand Paediatric Critical Care Nutrition Support Guidelines are now available.

If you’re an allied health, medical or nursing professional working in paediatric or mixed ICU, these are NOT to be missed. Aimed at supporting multidisciplinary team members to provide evidence based nutritional care for critically ill infants and children.

August 2022

Exclusive Enteral Nutrition therapy for children and young people with active 
luminal Crohn’s Disease 

The AuSPEN Paediatric Exclusive Enteral Nutrition (EEN) toolkit is an evidence based resource developed by the AuSPEN Paediatric IBD committee. It is designed to assist clinicians in their management of EEN for paediatric patients with mild to moderate active Crohn’s disease and includes advice for commencement, monitoring, and weaning of EEN support. This toolkit aims to support the standardisation of clinical care in EEN by providing practical guidance and strategies for treatment.

December 2021

Getting started with Blended Tube Feeds

An evidence-based patient resource developed by an expert panel to support patients, families and carers using blended tube feeds.

December 2021

The A to Z of Blended Tube Feeds

An evidence-based clinician resource developed by an expert panel to support clinicians who are managing patients on blended tube feeds, recommendations and considerations align with the consensus statement published by AuSPEN.

December 2021

What is Blended Tube Feeding?

An evidence-based patient resource developed by an expert panel to support patients, families and carers using blended tube feeds.

December 2021

AuSPEN - Discussion points for the commencement of Blended Tube Feeds (BTF)

An evidence-based clinician resource developed by an expert panel to support clinicians who are managing patients on blended tube feeds, recommendations and considerations align with the consensus statement published by AuSPEN.

OCTOBER 2021

AuSPEN Paediatric Trace Element Solution for use in Australia and New Zealand

The AuSPEN Paediatric Trace Element (TE) working group was formed as a sub group of the AuSPEN Paediatric committee in 2019 with the aim of providing an updated Paediatric TE solution for use in Australia and New Zealand. The solution is based on the recommendations from the 2018 paper ‘Trace Element Provision in Parenteral Nutrition in Children: One Size Does Not Fit All’ by Boutaina Zemrani, Zoe McCallum Julie E Bines1. 

SEPTEMBER 2021

Blended tube feeding in enteral feeding: Consensus Statement

What do clinicians need to know about Blended Tube Feeds (BTF)?

AuSPEN’s newly released Consensus Statement on BTF offers evidence-based guidance for clinicians managing patients who are enterally fed.

Developed by an expert panel, this statement is an Australian & New Zealand first and will help guide nutrition professionals to support their patients and separate fact from fiction.

WEDNESDAY 27th May 2020

AuSPEN Statement of Support for People Requiring Artificial Nutrition at Home

AuSPEN would like to acknowledge the unprecedented situation that COVID-19 has created, with high demand for acute hospital supplies and stock shortages.

People in our communities requiring artificial nutrition at home have ongoing need for access to infection control products, and AuSPEN would like to acknowledge the stress that shortages have placed on them. Community members on home parenteral and enteral nutrition can be at high risk of infection, and ensuring access to appropriate supplies is essential.  

We would like to openly thank our industry companies in ensuring our vulnerable community members are supported and for their support in directing stock to ensure a steady supply of appropriate products.

AuSPEN would also like to request all hospitals supplying artificial nutrition supplies to people in the community to please ensure supplies are allocated for vulnerable clients. We encourage nutrition teams within each hospital to reach out to their vulnerable clients to discuss any stock issues and to provide alternative options should supply be compromised.

We would like to thank all our health care workers who are working tirelessly in such a challenging time.

THURSDAY 7th April 2020

Published: ESPEN expert statements and practical guidance for nutritional management of individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection

Last week the ESPEN Executive Committee released their paper entitled ”ESPEN expert statements and practical guidance for nutritional management of individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection“ which has been published in Clinical Nutrition and is also online. Please find a link to this document on the AuSPEN website:

Tuesday 7th Apri 2020

Nutrition Management for Critically and Acutely Unwell Hospitalised Patients with COVID-19 in Australia and New Zealand

The purpose of this document is to provide evidence-based advice for nutrition management of critically ill and acutely unwell hospitalised patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides key adaptations of usual best practice, taking into consideration staff safety, reduced staffing, resource utilisation, and the clinical condition of the patients.

This document has been endorsed by the Australasian Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (AuSPEN).