250. Food and Nutrition in Your Surgery Patients

In this podcast Dr. Leah Gramlich, a gastroenterologist at the University of Alberta, discusses nutrition in patients. After listening to this podcast you should be able to: Describe why (mal)nutrition is important in your patients Describe dietary components, guidelines and food considerations in hospitalized patients Describe strategies to enhance food intake in hospitalized surgery patients Discuss alternatives to oral diet – rationale, routes Describe Enteral Nutrition- indications, contraindications, complications Describe Parenteral Nutrition – indications, contraindications, complications