Nutrition for the Practicing Pediatric Clinician • Intricacies of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Management in Specialized Pediatric Populations (NPPC-2025)

This preconference will provide invaluable information and practice applications to support clinicians in providing optimal nutrition support for medically complex pediatric populations.

The foundation of nutrition support is an accurate assessment of nutrition status. Completing an assessment of a child with mobility impairment and neurodevelopmental challenges can present additional challenges. The nutrition assessment of children who are critically ill, including those with congenital heart disease, will also be reviewed as these populations have specific nutrition requirements.

Following nutrition assessment, determining an individualized nutrition plan is crucial. This topic will be covered in presentations on human milk, highlighting which patients can benefit from receiving it, as well as in presentations on how to best deliver nutrition support. Enteral nutrition administration will be discussed, including the complexities of chyme reinfusion, which is critically important for gut health in patients with high-output stomas and has been historically challenging to execute. This course will also review common parenteral nutrition complexities and strategies for management.

• State treatment methods that have been successful at facilitating enteral autonomy in children with intestinal failure.
• Describe the benefits of human milk for hospitalized infants in the neonatal intensive care unit and in other clinical settings.
• Explain targeted nutrition care plans designed to meet the nutrition requirements of a child with neurological impairment pre-operatively.
• Describe adjustments to optimal nutrition interventions in response to a patient’s surgical course, both pre- and post-cardiac intervention.