Intestinal Failure: Lessons from Latin America
- Understand the prevelance of SBS/IF treatments in South America
- Describe outcomes of IF in under-resourced geographies
- Understand approaches to developing IF expertise in emerging geographies
Adult
Quality of Life in Home Parenteral Nutrition and Short Bowel Syndrome
- Evaluate quality of life (QoL) in intestinal failure and HPN patients
- Use qualitative approaches to study QoL of intestinal failure patients
- Summarize outcomes for current QoL studies in IF
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
