Improving Nutrition Interventions in the Critical Care Setting: A Team-Based Approach (SU24)

Breakout

Date & Time:

March 23, 2025

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET

Format:

In Person & Virtual

CE Credits:

2 Hours

UAN: JA0002345-0000-25-030-L99-P

Course level:

Intermediate

session objectives:

What You'll Learn

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • Choose appropriate critically ill patients for enteral nutrition during hemodynamic instability.
  • List the indications for and provision of parenteral nutrition in critically ill patients.
  • Discuss medications commonly used in critically ill patients and their effects on glycemic control, lean body mass loss, and gastrointestinal perfusion.
  • Compare and contrast the effects of high versus lower protein delivery in the ICU and longer-term functional outcomes.
  • Differentiate the pathophysiology and neurologic consequences of hyperammonemia in liver failure and severe malnutrition.
  • Develop a concept of personalized nutrition support in critically ill patients as it relates to calories, protein, insulin, and concomitant medications.

 

Topics & Presenters

Case #1: Enteral Nutrition During Hemodynamic Instability

Anne Tucker
PharmD, BCNSP, FASPEN

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Critical Care / Nutrition Support

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, TX

Case #2: Parenteral Nutrition Considerations and Use in a Critically Ill Patient

Lauren Probstfeld
MS, RD, CNSC

Clinical Dietitian, Medical Intensive Care Unit

Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center

Houston, TX

Case #3: High Versus Lower Protein Delivery in the ICU and Longer-Term Functional Outcomes

Todd Rice
MD, MSc, FASPEN

Professor of Medicine

Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nashville, TN

Case #4: Hyperammonemia in the Critically Ill Adult Patient

Prem Kandiah
MD

Associate Professor of Neurology

Emory University Hospital

Atlanta, GA

Moderators:

Stephanie Dobak

MS, RD, LDN, CNSC

Clinical Dietitian III

Jefferson Weinberg ALS Center

Philadelphia, PA