➡️50-yo pt w 1y hx of SBS after multiple short bowel resections for stricturing Crohn’s
Labs show dehydration & nutrient deficiencies
U discuss initiating #ParenteralNutrition
➡️You focus on educating pt on which of the possible complications...
4/#ShortBowelSyndrome =most common cause of intestinal failure
⚖️Both SBS & #ParenteralNutrition are assc'd w significant complications
✳️Reqs complex, & lifelong, course of disease mgmt
⚠️Early appraisal & mgmt of CVC issues is vital for salvaging CVC & ⬆️QoL for the pt on PN
🏠Home #ParenteralNutrition & #EnteralNutrition
✔️Pt selection essential: acceptable home environment w support
✔️Pt/caregiver edu, routine monitoring essential to prevent/reduce complications
✔️Support groups provide support & networking
⚡️Essential that the MDT continues to engage in collaborative care even as pt initiates & responds to tx such as teduglutide
📊Monitor labs as pt weans from #ParenteralNutrition
🥪Adjust diet w changing nutrition needs
👨🏻🏫Educate & engage to optimize #adherence
2yo pt w hx of necrotizing enterocolitis & new dx of SBS after surgery
Parents meet w GI to discuss her care & voice confusion w diverse care recommendations.
Which approach is recommended to facilitate integrated mgmt for this pt?
11/#MondayNightIBD
IRP=med centers w interdisciplinary teams experienced in centrlizd & integrated mgmt of SBS
Goals of IRP
🎯Promote intestinal adaptation
🎯Facilitate enteral autonomy
🎯⬇️M&M
IRPs provide expertise in PN mgmt, diet & fluid optimization, pharmacologic mgmt &✂️
💫IRPs can be focused on👧🏽Pediatric,👨Adults, ☑All ages
🚗Some pts don't have access to IRPs and/or unable to travel to one
🎯Telemedicine allows for virtual consult w IRP team
💎Pts w #ShortBowelSyndrome managed in an IRP benefit from better survival vs historical ctrls treated w/o MDT care
✔️Systematic rev/meta-analysis:⬆️in OS (22% to 42%) among peds pts
✔️Retrospective cohort:⬇️in peds pts who died before transplant (15% to >60%)
🔑Pts
✔️GI, Surg, RN, Dietician best 4 SBS MDT; ped pts benefit from neonatologists, child-life specialists, & other ped specialists
✔️Essential MDT continues even w tx
✔️IRPs: centers w MDT expertise in PN mgmt, diet & fluid optimization, pharm mgmt & surgery
➡️50-yo pt w 1y hx of SBS after multiple short bowel resections for stricturing Crohn’s
Labs show dehydration & nutrient deficiencies
U discuss initiating #ParenteralNutrition
➡️You focus on educating pt on which of the possible complications...
🟢The addition of which of the following to an anti-TNF agent is associated with a higher rate of #Crohns#PerianalFistula CPF healing vs the anti-TNF agent alone?