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Intestinal Failure and Nutrition Support: The Art of Feeding for Intestinal Adaptation

This presentation covers pediatric intestinal failure, its causes, and the complexities of management. We will focus on nutrition management with an emphasis on intestinal adaptation and innovative medical approaches. Topics include different enteral nutrition regimens, parenteral nutrition use, and weaning from parenteral to enteral feeding.

Beyond the blender: Mastering best practices with blenderized tube feeding

Learn about options and innovations in commercially prepared BTF’s and supplies, feeding access considerations and new best practice recommendations to empower you with the knowledge to provide optimal nutrition support for your patients.

Applications of a Pea Protein Plant-Based Formula

This presentation provides clinicians with an overview of plant-based protein. It provides insights into the key differentiators of plant-based enteral formula and evidence-based information regarding plant-based nutrition in the medical nutrition space.

MICRO nutrients, MAJOR consequences

This presentation will review the prevalence and primary causes of micronutrient deficiencies for the enterally fed patient. Take a deeper dive into special considerations for enterally fed patients to assure micronutrient needs are met. Review the most common vitamins/minerals of concern when exclusively tube fed, the symptoms of these deficiencies and how to best treat.

Challenging the Fiber Dogma: Exploring New Evidence and Updated Methodology

Join fiber researcher and expert Dr. Joanne Slavin for an in-depth review of new evidence around fiber in clinical nutrition.

Go With Your Gut--Microbiota: Deconstructing Probiotics and Prebiotics

What knowledge gaps are there in the field of probiotics and prebiotics? Are there guidelines or contraindications for usage? This webinar will lay the foundational knowledge to understand the gut microbiota and explain the physiological effects of probiotic and prebiotic supplements.

The Last Residue: A Comprehensive Review of Dietary and Functional Fibers

We all know fiber is essential for good health, but what are the mechanisms? What happens to the gut when there is no fiber? How well do you understand the more confusing aspects such as the solubility, viscosity and fermentability of fiber?

Formula Transition: Applications of a Plant-Based Formula

This presentation is for clinicians seeking more information about switching to a plant-based formula from an amino-acid-based product. Several case presentations and recent data will be shared.

Benefits & Utilization of a Plant-Based Diet in Pediatrics

This presentation is designed for dietitians who work with pediatric patients and who are interested in learning about how to apply a plant-based diet to this population in an effective and evidence-based approach.

Tolerance in the Transition: Optimizing the Transition to Home Enteral Nutrition

This CE provides a greater understanding of basic clinical assessment skills critical for the management of the home enterally fed patient.

Phytonutrients in the Clinical Setting

Evidence-based information on the phytonutrients in multiple fruits, vegetables, spices, and herbs and how they can potentially impact various disease states.

The Influence of the Gut Microbiome on Behavior

Learn about how a person eats influences his/her gut microbiome enough to impact development and/or symptoms of depression, anxiety, ADHD, and/or ASD.

Medical Foods, Medical Nutrition Therapy, and the Insurance Gap

Reviews academic literature findings on the use of ONS and TF to prevent further disease and malnutrition, examines the current state of insurance coverage for MNT, and more.

Clinical Applications of a Plant-Based Nutrition Formula

Applications of this material to clinical conditions include discussion of nutrition in oncology, pediatrics and diabetes, as well as within inflammatory conditions.

History and Benefits of Plant-Based Nutrition

This presentation will review history, current trends, benefits, and new research in plant-based diets and formulas.

Tube Feeding & Intestinal Health: A Functional Medicine Perspective

Topics will include maltodextrin, phytonutrients, and overall intestinal health from a functional medicine perspective.

Food, the Gut, and Immunity: How Nutrition Shapes the Developing Immune System

This lecture will explore this subject and how optimal enteral nutrition promotes immune development to ideally support long term health and well-being.

Shared Decision Making in Patient Centered Care – Are You Sharing?

This presentation will explore these ideas and benefits of shared decision making to ensure patient values guide clinical decisions as recommended by the IOM.

Plant-Based Peptides: Sources and Clinical Applications – What the Clinician Needs to Know

This program examines the emergence of plant-based protein ingredients, and their quality, safety and efficacy, highlighting pea protein.

Inpatient Tube Feeding Practices: A Review by Disease State

Review the fundamentals of tube feeding implementation in the inpatient setting including safe practices for ordering and initiating enteral feeding.

A Surgeon’s Perspective – Discussing Use of a Plant-Based Diet

Join Kate Farms and Dr. Juan Calisto, pediatric surgeon at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital and avid promoter of the plant-based lifestyle, for a presentation around using plant-based diets.

Global Plant-Based Diets & Implications for Health

Although plant-based diets are increasing in popularity, they have been a mainstay of numerous cultural eating patterns across the globe.

Nutritional Foundations for Mitochondrial Optimization

This CE is presented to Dietitians to provide a greater understanding of mitochondrial function, understand the distinctions between mitochondrial disease and dysfunction.