DESCRIPTION

Discuss specific nutrition support topics during the Roundtables Session. Tables will be organized by topic and participants will have an opportunity to interact in small groups with faculty and peers. Each faculty leader will meet with groups for 25 minutes before participants are asked to move to another table for discussion on a different topic. Participants will have an opportunity to visit three tables during the session.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

 A Novel Approach to Supporting Clinicians and Families Implementing Blenderized Tube Feeding (RT2-A)*

• Identify how this series of videos can be applied to your practice to enhance equitable, accessible, and family-centered nutrition interventions for blenderized tube feeding (BTF).
• Describe the importance of the integration of the family and caregiver perspective when developing tools for patient and clinician education.
• Define the advantages of using an online, on demand video series as the platform to provide comprehensive education for blended tube feeds for clinicians and families.

The Evidence Behind and the Process for Implementing Patient Specific Milk Analysis and Target Fortification (RT2-B)*

• Summarize available evidence surrounding targeted fortification.
• Determine barriers or constraints to milk analysis and targeted fortification.
• Examine case studies to assess the efficacy of a milk analysis and targeted fortification process.

Little Known Facts in Monitoring and Assessment of Parenteral Nutrition (RT2-C)

• Discuss the rationale or background of the order of mixing a PN solution.
• Utilize the various calculations for interpreting laboratory values correctly.
• Discuss how pH can affect the interpretation of potassium and calcium levels in the body.

They Did WHAT? Let Us Not Have History Repeat Itself (RT2-D)

• Identify the steps to critically evaluate an error.
• Describe how bias and perspective can impact communication and lead to errors.
• Identify risk points in processes where safeguards will add value and improve patient safety.

Diarrhea Troubleshooting In Enterally Fed Patients: Its Not the Tube Feeds (RT2-E)

• Evaluate a comprehensive step-by-step strategy for troubleshooting diarrhea in enterally fed patients, focusing on factors beyond EN formulas.
• Identify the effects of hyperosmotic liquid medications on diarrhea in enterally fed patients.
• Evaluate methods for distributing institution-specific diarrhea troubleshooting guidelines to interprofessional staff.

Understanding Mechanical Ventilation and the Impact on Nutrition Support (RT2-F)

• Describe ventilator basics and respiratory assessments as they relate to changes in pulmonary function.
• Apply knowledge of ventilator basics and respiratory assessments to optimize nutrition support feeding plans in critically ill patients.

Thiamine Deficiency: Identification, Intervention, and Averting a Court Case (RT2-G)

• Identify signs and symptoms of thiamine deficiency.
• List the numerous clinical settings where thiamine deficiency has occurred and been missed (e.g., anorexia, malabsorption, marked weight loss with vomiting).
• Intervene and treat appropriately to avoid both refeeding syndrome and Wernicke’s Encephalopathy.

Life Hacks You Need to Know to Make Patient Lives on PN or EN Much Easier (RT2-H)

• Describe life hacks used by patients on PN or EN that improved their quality of life.
• Describe products used or ways things were modified that enabled easier participation in daily life while on PN or EN.
• Name helpful community resources that can be passed on to patients.

Navigating B Codes With the A-Team: Mastering Medicare Part B Guidelines for Coverage of HEN Part 1 (RT2-I)

• Summarize Medicare Part B coverage criteria for home enteral nutrition.
• Identify reasonable and necessary criteria for pump justification.

Navigating B Codes With the A-Team: Mastering Medicare Part B Guidelines for Coverage of HEN Part 2 (RT2-J)

• Identify reasonable and necessary requirements as detailed in the Local Coverage Determination (LDC).
• List enteral formula product categories and which require additional justification for coverage.

We’re Salty…Can We Get a Consensus on Treating POTS? (RT2-K)

• Define POTS and gain awareness of nutrition-related challenges.
• Recommend a nutrition support care plan for treating POTS.
• Develop a list of resources applicable to various clinical settings and discuss ways to advocate for this patient population.

Quality Measures to Ensure Optimal Nutritional Support: What Are the Global Best Practices? (RT2-L)

• Choose which quality measure (QM) can work in your setting.
• Analyze the QM and improve protocols.
• Manage the QM.

Managing Nutrition Challenges of Patients With Dysautonomia – Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome and Postural Tachycardia Syndrome: What Works? (RT2-M)

• Describe dysautonomia and diseases that are found under this umbrella diagnosis – POTS, EDS, MCAS.
• Identify nutrition intervention strategies for patients with POTS, MCAS and EDS.
• Determine resources for the patients including referral to medical experts.

* Pediatric Content Included