Placement & Maintenance of Nasogastric Feeding Tubes in Cats
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The goals of this session are to describe how to place nasogastric (NG) tubes in cats, discuss the benefits of NG tubes for temporary nutritional support, potential complications, and disease states where NG tubes are advantageous. The amount, type, and delivery method of food through the NG tube will be presented. Placement of an NG tube can be a way to support ill cats through a variety of disease states, decreasing illness time, hospitalization, and are usually well-tolerated.
Speaker Bio
Lisa Powell, DVM, DACVECC
Lisa Powell graduated veterinary school from Texas A&M in 1995, completed a small animal rotating internship at the AMC in NYC in 1996, then went on to a residency in small animal emergency and critical care at Tufts University, finishing in 1999. She became board certified in Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care in 2000. After residency, Dr. Powell joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota where she worked as a clinical professor for 15 years. She developed the Emergency and Critical Care Residency at the University of MN, which continues to be a strong program. She is an author of more than 30 veterinary publications, and authored a book entitled Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care: Case Studies in Client Communication, Morbidity and Mortality. She is currently an associate emergency and critical care clinician at BluePearl Veterinary Partners in Minnesota and is a national and international speaker on all things Emergency and Critical Care! Her clinical interests include cardiopulmonary disease,severe trauma, and fluid therapy.
RACE Credits
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This program 249-44275 is approved by the AAVSB RACE to offer a total of 1.00 CE Credits (1.00 max) being available to any one veterinarian: and/or 1.00 Veterinary Technician CE Credits (1.00 max). This RACE approval is for the subject matter categorie(s) of: Medical using the delivery method(s) of: Non-Interactive Distance. This approval is valid in jurisdictions which recognize AAVSB RACE; however, participants are responsible for ascertaining each board's CE requirements.