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Principles of Intestinal Failure Management: The Patient with High Stoma Output

• Describe the clinical features of patients with SBS-IF and jejunostomies
• Discuss the steps in medical treatment of the high output stoma patient
• Summarize current outcomes in this group of patients

Nutritional Rehabilitation: How Do We Wean Parenteral Nutrition?

• List the clinician's role in preparing a patient for PN weaning.
• Identify the clues that may suggest it is time for a weaning trial.
• Discuss the nutrition and hydration weaning options available to clinician and patient.

Educating the Patient and Caregiver for Transitioning to Home Parenteral Nutrition (HPN)

• Describe the principles of preparing to discharge patients on PN
• Implement best practices for teaching patients/ care-providers how to manage HPN
• Describe best practices for prevention of common PN complications

Transitioning the PN Patient to the Home and Monitoring PN in the Home Setting

• Articulate the steps in preparing a patient for home parenteral nutrition (HPN)
• Describe the steps for safe discharge on HPN
• Develop a plan for laboratory monitoring of patients on HPN

COVID-19: Notes From New York

• Understand the situation in New York and how the state is tackling the coronavirus pandemic.
• Hear from Head of Nutrition Support at Presbyterian Medical Center of Columbia Univerisity, Dr. David Seres, about actions to safely manage patients and prevent the spread of coronavirus.
• Describe what makes TPN and Intestinal Failure patients vulnerable to COVID-19.

Who Needs Parenteral Nutrition? And When?

• Identify indications for commencing parenteral nutrition (PN)
• Identify contraindications to commencing PN
• Analyze clinical, financial and social constraints to commencing PN

Current Status of Intestinal Transplant

• Determine the current and expanding indications for intestinal transplantation for SBS/IF
• Describe the  choice of allograft organs in intestinal transplant
• Summarize outcomes for intestinal transplantation in the modern era

Growth Factors Beyond Teduglutide

• Describe the principles of growth factor therapy in intestinal adaptation using teduglutide as the prototype growth factor
• Summarize results of recent Phase 2 trials with long-acting growth factors in intestinal failure
• Explain the future landscape for growth factor therapy in intestinal failure

Real World Experience with Teduglutide: Lessons Learned

• Describe the use of growth factors in SBS/IF
• Identify contraindications to use of growth factors in SBS/IF
• Analyze current real-world experience with use of growth factor therapy in SBS/IF

Probiotics and Intestinal Adaptation

• Describe the interplay of probiotics and intestinal adaptation
• Summarize the role of short chain fatty acids and diet in intestinal adaptation
• Identify current areas of research in intestinal adaptation

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