T20
Is My Patient Malnourished?
Date
February 12, 2013
Credits
1.5 Dietitian | 1.5 Nurse | 1.5 Pharmacist | 1.5 Physician | 1.5 Other
Objectives:
- Identify the feasibility and validity potential with use of adult malnutrition characteristics and markers in nutrition assessment
- Describe the Canadian Malnutrition Task Force mission and activities to ameliorate malnutrition and identify how the study results are being used to leverage and develop culture change for nutrition care
- Create a definition for pediatric malnutrition and communicate the parameters that define pediatric malnutrition
Speakers
Ainsley Malone, MS, RDN, LD, CNSC, FAND, FASPEN
Clinical Practice Specialist; Nutrition Support Dietitian, American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, New Albany, OH
Heather Keller, RD, PhD, FDC, FCAHS
Schlegel Research Chair, Nutrition and Aging, Schlegel-University of Waterloo Research Institute for Aging, Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Gordon L. Jensen, MD, PhD, FASPEN
Senior Associate Dean for Research Emeritus; Professor of Medicine and Nutrition Emeritus, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Nilesh Mehta, MD
Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine; Associate Medical Director, Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
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