Today`sCPE, April 2010 End-of-Life Care: Is PEG Tube Feeding Appropriate?

$29
Softcover

By Liz Friedrich, MPH, RD, CSG, LDN

Course description:

"To PEG or not to PEG" is a glib way to express a very serious and all-too-common dilemma for medical and nutrition professionals: whether to use extreme measures to prolong a patient's life, when all the evidence indicates that doing so only prolongs the patient's suffering and delays the inevitable, at great financial and emotional cost to all concerned. Placing a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube (PEG) can be the hardest decision a dietitian will face, and there are no hard-and-fast rules to guide that decision. This article will address these issues.

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RDs and DTRs: 2 CPEU
CDMs: 2 Clock Hours

Suggested CDR Learning Codes: 4190, 5000, 5040, 5100, 5430; Level 2

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