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In Search Of Lean Body Mass

Date
January 19, 2014
Credits
2 Dietitian | 2 Nurse | 2 Pharmacist | 2 Physician | 2 Other | Expired December 19, 2017

Objectives:

  1. Understand the role of lean body mass in outcome from illness and injury
  2. Summarize the role of specific techniques for body mass assessment in adult patients
  3. Describe and understand the role of specific techniques for body mass assessment in neonatal patients

Speakers

Speaker Image for Vickie Baracos
Professor and Alberta Cancer Foundation Chair in Palliative Medicine, Department of Oncology University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
Speaker Image for Carrie Earthman
Carrie Earthman, PhD, RDN
Professor, Nutrition, Department of Behavioral Health and Nutrition, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Speaker Image for Melissa Rice
Neonatology Fellow, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

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