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Description
Method of Participation in the Learning Process/Evaluation MethodSuccessful completion of this activity includes reading the entire article and successfully completing the post-quiz and an evaluation form.Getting the Most out of the ActivityAs you prepare to participate in this activity, please reflect on your practice and your patients and identify clinical challenges you hope to have addressed.While participating in the training, identify ways you can use newly acquired knowledge, strategies, and skills to enhance patient outcomes and your own professional development.Learning Objectives
After completing this continuing education activity you will be able to:
- Evaluate the evidence suggesting that gastric feeding is equivalent to jejunal feeding in acute pancreatitis.
- Discuss benefits and risks of each feeding approach.
- Compare guideline recommendations on this issue from various professional organizations.
- Explain the criteria used by the International Consensus Guideline Committee to assign grades to various types of evidence.
- Identify the protein dose associated with optimal intensive care unit outcomes in a systematic review.
- Discuss why this evidence is insufficient to support recommendations regarding ideal protein intakes in critical illness.
- Compare outcomes of older and younger patients fed with high-protein, hypocaloric nutrition during critical illness.
- Explain that in critically ill patients with mild feeding intolerance, placement of an nasojejunal tube did not improve outcomes compared with nasogastric feeding.
- Describe limitations and patient groups to whom these results may not apply.
Disclosures
Mr. Lomangino has disclosed that he is a consultant to the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation and the American Association of Diabetes Educators.
Price:
$49.00
Credits:
- CDR 1.0 CPEU
- FCDN 1.0 CH
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited Provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR), provider number LI001. Registered dietitians (RDs) will receive 1.0 continuing professional education units (CPEUs) for successful completion of this program/material, CPE Level 2.
LWW is approved as a provider of continuing education for the Florida Council for Dietetics and Nutrition.
LWW is approved as a provider of continuing education for the Florida Council for Dietetics and Nutrition.
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Professions:
Other Health Professional
Test Code: CNI0213
Published: February 2013
Expires: 1/1/2026
Sources:
Clinical Nutrition Insight
Required Passing Score: 7/10 (70%)
Specialties:
Internal Medicine