Nutrition Essentials: Faltering Growth
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Faltering growth can affect both an infant or child’s short and long-term health - with consequences including an increased risk of infections, poorer recovery from surgery, prolonged length of intensive care stay and GI dysfunction in the short-term and impaired lung and cardiac function, compromised cognitive achievements, stunting and poorer lifelong health in the longer term.
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Infantile growth has been described as a “mirror of health,” with its measurement being an important and non-invasive tool reflecting health and nutritional status of an infant as well as the the quality of life of a population. Understanding and identifying when growth is faltering as well as its optimal management is crucial for preventing short-term and longer-term adverse consequences for patients. Professor Atul Singhal, Profession Koen Joosten, Professor Koen Huysentruyt and Dr Rosan Meyer have developed a CME accredited e-learning course designed to provide healthcare providers with an overview of faltering growth in infants and children under 2 years of age. The practical tool covers the presentation, identification and management of faltering growth in infants and children under 2 years of age and on completion of the training HCPs will be able to: define faltering, catch-up, accelerated and normal growth. explain the consequences of faltering growth on patients and their communities identify faltering growth, accelerated growth, and catch-up growth from example growth charts explain the recommendations for management of faltering growth This expert e-learning tool is offered by Karger Publishers and has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (UEMS-EACCME®) with 1 European CME credit (ECMEC®). Please click on the link [below?] to access the accredited training and update your knowledge and clinical practice for faltering growth in the first 2 years of life.
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