nutrition

CME Webcast Teaches on Nutrition for Physicians

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CME Webcast Teaches on Nutrition for Physicians. Today’s CME webcast on nutrition will focus on nutritional deficiencies and malnutrition. For this program, we’ve invited one of Ohio State University’s experts. We are pleased to introduce Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine Dr. Adeeti Chiplunker. She is a gastroenterologist with a focus on intestinal failure and is the medical director of Nutrition Services at Ohio State University.

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to:

  • Describe vitamin/mineral deficiencies associated with GI disorders, identify physical exam findings associated with specific vitamin/mineral deficiencies and review optimal methods of repletion.
  • Define malnutrition, review screening tools for malnutrition and identify physical exam findings associated with malnutrition

You’ll also learn about the following:

  • Testing
  • Supplements
  • Zinc Deficiency
  • Diseases + Nutritional Deficiencies

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Program Manager at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual.  You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.

On-line Education Discusses Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

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OSUWexnerbloglogo2014 On-line Education Discusses Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. On this CME webcast, we’re going to update you on the current treatment of ARDS. Joining our moderator in the studio are two specialists in pulmonary and critical care medicine. Dr. Sonal Pannu is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the Ohio State University, and Dr. Matthew Exline is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and a vice chairman of the OSU Department of Internal Medicine. Sonal
View a video introduction of this webcast

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to: DESCRIBE low tidal
volume ventilation is a basic tenet of lung protective ventilation for patients with ARDS and those admitted to the hospital who are at risk for ARDS; and UNDERSTAND prone positioning in patients with severe ARDS helps to improve mortality.

You’ll also learn about the following:

  • Pathogenesis of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
  • Treating ARDS
  • Whether it is better to correct the oxygen level or the carbon dioxide level
  • Practical strategies for paralyzing the patient
  • Nutrition in ARDS
  • Long-term consequences of ARDS
  • High frequency ventilation
  • Pressure control mode of mechanical ventilation
  • When to transfer the patient to an ECMO center

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Program Manager at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual. You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.