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Objectives: 

• Evaluate the etiology of different types of wounds: pressure injury, venous, arterial, and diabetic wounds
• Review the nutrition guidelines within the 2019 International EPUAP/NPIAP/PPPIA*
• Discuss evidence based nutrition interventions in wound prevention and healing 

*European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (EPUAP), National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP), Pan Pacific Pressure Injury Alliance (PPPIA)

Objectives:
• Verbalize suggested protein recommendations found in current critical care nutrition guidelines
• Assess results of recent nutrition studies and relate them to current nutrition guidelines
• Discuss potential benefits associated with determining appropriate protein and calorie goals for the critically ill patient

Objectives:
At the completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:
1. Recognize potential areas of misdirection with regards to personalized nutrition and large randomized controlled trials
2. Discuss evolving concepts likely to direct Critical Care Nutrition in the future
3. Identify practical recommendations for nutritional therapy in the critically ill

Objectives:
• Identify gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms that show improved outcomes with food-based tube feeding formulas
• Describe real-world evidence demonstrating clinical and health economic outcomes with tube feeding formulas containing real food ingredients
• Apply case-based studies to current practice for managing GI intolerance in pediatric tube-fed patients

Objectives:
• Describe normal feeding patterns in children
• Identify common feeding problems in pediatrics
• Explain several strategies to avoid or ameliorate feeding problems
• Describe the differences between feeding problems and a pediatric feeding disorder

Objectives:
• Identify common challenges associated with feeding tubes and strategies to avoid such challenges
• Describe key parameters used to assess GI intolerance and identify feeding regimen options to alleviate symptoms
• Describe dos and don’ts when recommending a blenderized or commercially prepared food-based tube feeding

Learning Objectives:
1. Explain recently published real world evidence on the clinical and health economic outcomes of utilizing commercially blenderized formulas for tube-fed children and adults.
2. Describe at least two examples of how this recent data will change clinical practice.
3. Apply learnings through a case-based approach to identify how and when to utilize commercially blenderized formulas with tube fed patients.

Objectives:
• Identify five nutritional interventions for pre-surgery patients mentioned in the scoping review published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS)
• List the two clinical outcomes most frequently measured in response to preoperative nutrition optimization
• Describe the 'Take-Away' points meant to guide the practice decisions of general surgeons