Gastrointestinal Ceus

This CEU course provides health care professionals working with the HIV-infected population information on adverse reactions to HIV medications; drug-drug interactions with HIV-related medications; and antiretroviral medications...

Pancreatic cancer remains the third leading cause of death in the U.S. It is on the rise to becoming the second leading cause by 2030. Pancreatic cancer remains difficult to diagnose and treat, because no clear early warning signs and symptoms exist. F...

Von Willebrand disease (vWD) is the most common inherited genetic bleeding disorder, yet it is not well known or understood among the public or healthcare providers. Von Willebrand factor (vWF) is a protein that is essential for platelet aggregation an...

Intestinal failure in infants is most frequently caused by short bowel syndrome (SBS). Although lifesaving, surgeries required to correct gastrointestinal complications such as necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and other congenital conditions may lead to...

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is one of the most common GI complaints that healthcare providers encounter. The backflow of the acidic gastric or duodenal contents into the esophagus can result in heartburn. Healthcare professionals play an imp...

Since 2000, the epidemiology of Clostridioides (formerly Clostridium) difficile infection (CDI) has changed with significant increases in incidence and severity. Recently overall incidence of CDI and healthcare-associated CDI h...

Cats, dogs, and other animals can transmit a wide variety of diseases to humans, ranging from trivial infections to life-threatening diseases. In the U.S., casual contact and bites from animals cause millions of human infections every year. Animals can...

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is the most commonly diagnosed GI disorder in the United States. It can limit activities of daily living, productivity, socialization, and travel, significantly decreasing quality of life. It is well accepted that food pl...

About a quarter of a million hospitalized patients receive enteral feedings annually (Boullata et al., 2017) and an estimated 344,000 U.S. patients receive their nutrition via a tube at home (Ireton-Jones, n.d.). Patients with long-term feeding tubes, ...

Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) combines 2 diagnostic techniques: endoscopy and ultrasound. The marriage of these 2 techniques, an imaging of the body’s inner wall layers combined with an endoscope’s maneuverability, enhances the physician&rsqu...

Nearly 70% of adults in the United States are overweight. Of those, more than one-third are obese. Shockingly, 20.6% of adolescents ages 12 to 19 are obese, 17.4% of children ages 6 to 11 are obese, and 9.4% of children ages 2 to 5 are obese. In 2014, ...

Pancreatic cancer remains difficult to diagnose and treat because no clear early warning signs and symptoms exist, and many symptoms reported are vague and can be attributed to other, benign causes. Pancreatic cancer remains the fourth leading cause of...

Chronic hepatitis C has been the leading cause of many complications associated with the liver, such as cirrhosis and the need for a liver transplant. Historically, treatment was not very effective and was compounded by many adverse effects from the me...

The prevalence of obesity in the general population continues to rise at alarming rates regardless of age, gender, or cultural differences. In general, the risk of comorbidities increases as the degree of obesity increases. Numerous health consequences...

Family history has long been an established risk factor for cancer. Family history influences cancer risk in many ways. Families share genes, but they also tend to share habits and environments that create disease clusters among relatives. A small subs...

Excluding skin cancers, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the United States with an estimated 97,220 new cases of colon cancer and 43,030 cases of rectal cancer predicted to occur in 2018. Colorectal cancers develop in the colon or t...

Inflammatory bowel disease describes a group of chronic diseases that cause acute inflammation of the intestines. IBD includes, most prominently, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Debilitating and sometimes deadly diseases, they are charact...

Pancreatitis can affect anyone at any age. More than 200,000 people in the U.S. are admitted to the hospital each year with acute pancreatitis. It can cause critical illness, and in the acute stages, it may even be fatal. Nurses in every practice setti...

Celiac disease is an inherited autoimmune disease affecting about 1% of the U.S. population. Currently, the only treatment for celiac disease is lifelong adherence to a strict gluten-free diet, and because of that, dietitians and other health professio...

This course will help healthcare professionals understand what nutrigenomics testing is, how genetic variation can guide nutrition recommendations, and how this can be implemented into practice to provide patients with individually tailored dietary and...

Obesity affects the entire scope of a person’s life, including health, social relationships, self-image, and psychological well-being. Obesity rates in the United States remain the highest in the world. Now recognized as a chronic disease that mu...

This continuing education course will develop healthcare providers’ knowledge of diabetic neuropathy and treatment options. Learners will be exposed to background information on the disease state including definitions, classification, etiology, p...

Obesity is a global health concern associated with a number of acute and chronic health problems. Losing a modest percentage of body weight can decrease risk for chronic diseases. Unfortunately, losing weight is not easy; keeping it off is even more di...

Endoscopies are minimally invasive procedures performed to diagnose and treat abnormalities of the internal structures of the body. These procedures are extensively used to investigate symptoms of GI dysfunction and treat biopsy-proven diseases of the ...

Bleeding in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract happens for a variety of reasons. It may be occult or obvious and can occur anywhere between the throat and the rectum. It can be difficult to detect until a patient has lost a significant amount of blood. A ...

Diverticular disease includes asymptomatic diverticulosis, as well as the more serious diverticulitis. Diagnosis is often difficult due to common and vague symptoms. Serious and potentially life-threatening problems begin when infection develops. Prefe...

According to a 2007 Institute of Medicine report, an astonishing 380,000 to 450,000 preventable adverse drug events take place in hospitals annually, causing patients to suffer injury or death. As much as $3.5 billion is spent annually on treatment of ...

Objectives

Overview

Celiac disease, a disorder known to cause inflammation and absorption dysfunction of the gastrointestinal tract, has also been referred to as celiac sprue or gluten-sensitive enteropathy (Grossman & Porth, 2014)....

By the conclusion of this module, the reader should be able to:

The terms cannabis or marijuana refer to drugs produced from plants belonging to the genus Cannabis (Whiting et al., 2015). Three specific species have been identified, Cannabis sati...

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is common in the general population and has a significant medical and socioeconomic impact. IBS has long been viewed as a functional gastrointestinal (GI) disorder, which means the symptom complex of chron...

Food allergy affects approximately 5% to 9.3% of children and approximately 1% to 5% of adults in the United States, and the prevalence has been increasing. The number of deaths associated with food allergy remains relatively low, but s...

Aripiprazole is an antipsychotic that was originally approved for the treatment of schizophrenia, and thereafter for bipolar I disorder. Its use has continued to expand as it is now used to treat other psychiatric conditions, such as irritability in ch...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in children is not well understood in the pediatric population. Common symptoms include fever and respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms. In some cases there have been rare findings of liver disease. Treatment inc...

The topic of gastrointestinal motility disorders has grown amongst interdisciplinary health clinicians, including medical, nutritional, and psychiatry, and other members of the health team. Individuals affected by a gastrointestinal (GI) motility disor...

The topic of gastrointestinal motility disorders has grown amongst interdisciplinary health clinicians, including medical, nutritional, and psychiatry, and other members of the health team. Individuals affected by a gastrointestinal (GI) motility disor...

The topic of gastrointestinal motility disorders has grown amongst interdisciplinary health clinicians, including medical, nutritional, and psychiatry, and other members of the health team. Individuals affected by a gastrointestinal (GI) motility disor...

The topic of gastrointestinal motility disorders has grown amongst interdisciplinary health clinicians, including medical, nutritional, and psychiatry, and other members of the health team. Individuals affected by a gastrointestinal (GI) motility disor...