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Do you provide care to patients with acute pancreatitis? Learn the current recommendations for nutrition care for these patients in this encore presentation from Clinical Nutrition Week 2007. Two nationally recognized experts in nutrition for the pancreatitis patient will debate the controversial methods for supplying enteral nutrition. A recent study suggests that gastric feedings are as well tolerated as jejunal feedings – discover the relative advantages and risks of the two approaches. Explore the theories behind minimal pancreatic stimulation with enteral feedings, and the clinical advantages of using enteral nutrition.
Speaker(s):
Stephen
McClave,
MD,
Professor and Director of Clinical Nutrition, Department of Gastroenterology,
University of Louisville Health, Louisville, KY