Ruba Abdelhadi - Enteral Nutrition and Feeding Tubes 101

Bowel Sounds: The Pediatric GI Podcast

In this episode, hosts Drs. Peter Lu and Jennifer Lee talk to Dr. Ruba Abdelhadi about enteral nutrition and feeding tubes.
Dr. Abdelhadi is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Children's Mercy in Kansas City, MO where she is the Director of Nutrition Support Program. She is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine.

Learning Objectives:

1. Define enteral nutrition and patient populations who may benefit from enteral nutrition therapy.
2. Understand the types, use cases, and complications of enteral feeding tubes.
3. Review troubleshooting and treating common clinical scenarios related to feeding tube such as redness and leaking

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