Masterclass: Nutrition for the Emergency Patient
This 1-week intensive course will answer all of your questions about nutritional support needed for the emergency patients.
- Vet Nurse/Tech
- Starts August 21, 2023
- 1 Week
- RACE-approved for 6 CPD Points
This course includes:
- Live Online Weekly Tutorials
- Access to Tutorial Recordings
- 6 CPD Points (RACE-approved)
- Protocols For Your Practice
- Graded Course Assessment
- Discussion Forums
- Comprehensive Learning Resources
- Extra Course Resources
Course Outline:
Emergency patients need nutritional support… but what should we feed them, how much should we feed them, and what if they are unable to eat? This 1-week intensive course will answer all of these questions and more! We’ll cover care of feeding tubes, how to select the right diet, how to feed the diet, and how to manage complications in patients with a wide variety of emergency conditions – from trauma to metabolic disease and organ failure.
With 3 live tutorials, extensive course notes, lots of tutor interaction, and an engaging course assessment task, this course will help take your nursing care to the next level.
Tutorial 1: Why Early Nutritional Support Matters
Live: Tuesday, August 22, 2023 | 19:30 AEST
We begin with a discussion of what happens to a healthy patient that is fasting - and then look at what happens to an animal that is fasting when they are sick and unwell, to determine just how urgent early nutritional support is in these patients. We’ll also take a look at specific nutritional requirements of emergency and critically ill patients - and why they are different from healthy patients.
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Tutorial 2: The Nutrition Formula
Live: Wednesday, August 23, 2023 | 19:30 AEST
This tutorial will focus on feeding the patient - from feeding tube placement, care and complications, to how to provide nutritional support to your patient. We’ll also introduce the concept of micro-enteral nutrition, and how it can improve tolerance of critical care nutrition, when feeding begins, and will conclude with details on how to introduce complex nutrition to your emergency patient.
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Tutorial 3: Nutrition in Disease States
Live: Thursday, August 24, 2023 | 19:30 AEST
This tutorial will focus on the specifics of providing nutritional support to the emergency patient with specific disease - including kidney disease, trauma, gastrointestinal dysfunction, diabetes among others. We’ll conclude with a section specifically dealing with the complications of nutritional support- including re-feeding syndrome, gastrointestinal upset, anaemia and more.
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Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the participant will have a sound understanding of:
- The physiology of simple starvation in comparison to starvation in illness, as it relates to the requirement for urgent nutritional support in emergency or critically ill patients
- Appropriate care of feeding tubes, as well as placement techniques for nasal and oesophageal tubes
- The concept and practice of providing micro-enteral nutritional support to the emergency patient
- How to transition from microenteral nutrition to elemental or hydrolysed, and subsequently complex nutritional support for the emergency or critical patient
- Specific nutritional requirements for patients with diseases including kidney disease, diabetes mellitus, gastrointestinal dysfunction, among others
- How to diagnose and manage a patient with re-feeding syndrome; and how to prevent its occurrence.
Course Tutor
BVSc MVS PG Cert Vet Stud MACVSc (Vet. Emergency and Critical Care; Medicine of Dogs)
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