Children and adults with intestinal failure can present with significant feeding challenges that impact the intestinal rehabilitation programs ability to advance enteral nutrition, potentially resulting in long-term oral aversion and feeding difficulties. Similarly these challenges can persist in intestinal transplantation patients placing patients at risk for long-term feeding and nutritional difficulties.
Learning Objectives
Discuss challenges that present in children with intestinal failure related to feeding difficulties
Review case study in adult patients post-transplant that created feeding challenges and approaches to overcome these unique difficulties
Determine potential interventions and supports that could support feeding difficulties in intestinal failure/transplantations from the perspective of a multidisciplinary team.
Nurse Practitioner,
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
Transplant and Regenerative Medicine Centre
Group for Improvement of Intestinal Function and Treatment (GIFT)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Christina is a nurse practitioner for the past 12 years in the pediatric intestinal failure program at the Hospital for Sick Children and manages inpatient and outpatients on long-term parenteral nutrition and intestinal failure. She is currently pursuing her PhD in clinical epidemiology with a focus on evaluating burden of care for caregivers of children with intestinal failure. Her research interests also focus on evaluating long-term outcomes for children with intestinal failure and implementation of novel therapies to improve long-term morbidity and mortality.