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Optimizing Nutrition Support in Critically Ill and Surgical Cancer Patients

  • Authors: Arved Weimann, MD, MA; Kenneth Fearon, MD; Daren Heyland, MD, MSc, FRCPC; Alessandro Laviano, MD; Jean-Charles Preiser, MD, PhD
  • CPD Released: 9/25/2015
  • THIS ACTIVITY HAS EXPIRED FOR CREDIT
  • Valid for credit through: 9/25/2016, 11:59 PM EST
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Target Audience and Goal Statement

This educational activity is intended for an international audience of non-US healthcare professionals, specifically hematologists/oncologists, critical care specialists, emergency care physicians, and nutritionists involved in the management of critically-ill and surgical cancer patients.

The goal of this activity is to improve physicians' understanding of nutrition as an independent risk factor of prognostic value and a therapeutic target in critically ill and surgical cancer patients.

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Recognize malnutrition as an independent risk factor of prognostic value and a therapeutic target in critically ill and surgical cancer patients
  2. Review the role of malnutrition in the pathophysiology, metabolic response, and alteration of prognosis in these patients
  3. Describe the latest nutritional guidelines and clinical findings on enteral nutrition in these patients


Disclosures

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Moderator

  • Arved Weimann, MD, MA

    Professor and Chief, Department of General and Visceral Surgery, St. Georg Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of the University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Arved Weimann, MD, MA has disclosed the following relevant financial relationships:
    Served as a speaker or a member of a speakers bureau for: Baxter; B. Braun Melsungen AG; Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA; Nestlé; Nutricia
    Received grants for clinical research from: Baxter; Danone

Faculty

  • Kenneth Fearon, MD

    Professor of Surgical Oncology, Department of Clinical and Surgical Sciences, School of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Edinburgh, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Kenneth Fearon, MD has disclosed the following relevant financial relationships:
    Served as an advisor or consultant for: Helsinn Therapeutics, Inc
    Served as a speaker or a member of a speakers bureau for: Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA; Helsinn Therapeutics, Inc
    Received grants for clinical research from: Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation

  • Daren Heyland, MD, MSc, FRCPC

    Professor, Department of Medicine, Director, Clinical Evaluation Research Unit, Kingston General Hospital, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Daren Heyland, MD, MSc, FRCPC has disclosed the following relevant financial relationships:
    Served as an advisor or consultant for: GlaxoSmithKline; Lyric Pharmaceuticals
    Served as a speaker or a member of a speakers bureau for: Abbott Nutrition
    Received grants for clinical research from: Abbott Laboratories; GlaxoSmithKline; Lyric Pharmaceuticals; Nestlé

  • Alessandro Laviano, MD

    Associate professor, Department of Clinical Medicine, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Alessandro Laviano, MD has disclosed the following relevant financial relationships:
    Served as an advisor or consultant for: SmartFish
    Served as a speaker or a member of a speakers bureau for: Baxter; B. Braun Melsungen AG; Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA; Nestlé Health Science; Nutricia

  • Jean-Charles Preiser, MD, PhD

    Professor, Head of Clinic, Department of Intensive Care, Erasme University Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Jean-Charles Preiser, MD, PhD has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Editor

  • Jamieson Bretz, PhD

    Scientific Director, WebMD Global, LLC

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Jamieson Bretz, PhD has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Content Reviewer

  • Robert Morris, PharmD

    Associate CME Clinical Director

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Robert Morris, PharmD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.


Accreditation Statements

    For Physicians

  • The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom (FPM) has reviewed and approved the content of this educational activity and allocated it 1.0 continuing professional development credits (CPD).

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CPD

Optimizing Nutrition Support in Critically Ill and Surgical Cancer Patients

Authors: Arved Weimann, MD, MA; Kenneth Fearon, MD; Daren Heyland, MD, MSc, FRCPC; Alessandro Laviano, MD; Jean-Charles Preiser, MD, PhDFaculty and Disclosures
THIS ACTIVITY HAS EXPIRED FOR CREDIT

CPD Released: 9/25/2015

Valid for credit through: 9/25/2016, 11:59 PM EST

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Section 1.Introduction

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Section 2.What Have We Learned from Recent Nutrition Trials?

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Section 3.Nutrition Screening and Management in the ICU Patient

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Section 4.Nutrition: Pathophysiology, Screening, and Management

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Section 5.The Cancer Patient in the Perioperative Period: Guidelines/Concluding Remarks

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