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Activity Steps

1 Activity
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Description

Method of Participation in the Learning Process/Evaluation Method

Successful 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 Activity

As 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:

  1. Compare nutrition guidelines from the Surviving Sepsis Campaign with those from other expert groups.
  2. Evaluate the strength of evidence supporting nutrition guidelines in critically ill patients.
  3. Identify strategies for applying evidence in critical care nutrition to individual patients.
  4. Describe the effects of supplemental glutamine in a large multicenter trial of critically ill patients.
  5. Draw conclusions about the clinical role of supplemental glutamine in critical care nutrition.
  6. Explain the outcomes observed in a large multicenter trial comparing routine gastric residual volume (GRV) monitoring with a 250-mL cutoff with no monitoring in mechanically ventilated ICU patients.
  7. Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of routine GRV monitoring in critical illness.
  8. Discuss the findings of recent meta-analyses regarding the benefits of probiotics for the prevention of C. difficile infection.
  9. Identify limitations in the currently available data and discuss potential harms of probiotics.

Disclosures

Mr. Krenitsky has disclosed that he previously received speaking fees from Fresenius Kabi and payment from Covidien to develop educational seminars. 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 1.5 CH
  • FCDN 1.5 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 1.5 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.

Planner
Professions: Other Health Professional
Test Code: CNI0713
Published: July 2013
Expires: 1/1/2026
Sources: Clinical Nutrition Insight
Required Passing Score: 7/10 (70%)
Authors: Joe Krenitsky, MS, RD, Kevin Lomangino
Categories: Critical Care , Evidence-Based Practice , Gastrointestinal , Nutrition , Preventing Hospital Acquired Conditions (HAC)
Specialties: Gastroenterology, Internal Medicine
Topics: Clostridium difficile , Gastric Residual Volume (GRV) , Glutamine , Probiotics , Sepsis