Dietary Management: Recent Updates to a Classic Approach
1.0 CE Credit Hour / Veterinarians & Veterinary Technicians
Overview:
In this session, Dr. Adam Rudinsky, DACVIM reviews dietary approaches to vomiting and diarrhea management. Once a patient is diagnosed, how are we going to choose a diet? Should it be part of multi-modal management? Are there more effective and beneficial approaches? We will specifically focus on the application of paradigm shifting research published in the past few years which changes our approach in these patients. Join in to get a clinical update on the most effective treatment of vomiting and diarrhea.
Learning Objectives:
- Provide overview knowledge of the updated dietary treatment recommendations for acute and chronic diarrhea in dogs.
- Review the outcomes associated with dietary recommendations for treatment of vomiting and diarrhea in dogs and recent literature on optimized dietary trials.
- Review recent literature on cutting edge treatment options for treating specific gastrointestinal disorders with diet in dogs and cats.
Adam Rudinsky, DACVIM
Dr. Rudinsky is an Associate Professor -Tenure in the Small Animal Internal Medicine service at The Ohio State University Veterinary Medical Center. He received his DVM degree from The Ohio State University, completed a small animal rotating internship at Purdue University, and then a combined residency in internal medicine and MS degree at The Ohio State University. Following residency training he completed two post-doctoral research fellowships in Mucosal Immunology at The Ohio State University and Microbial Pathogenesis at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. He is now on faculty at Ohio State as a staff internist, research scientist and member of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. His current clinical and research interests include gastrointestinal endocrinology, chronic enteropathies, pancreatic and hepatic disease, mucosal immunology, and the intestinal microbiome as it relates to disease pathophysiology and treatment.
This course is RACE-approved for 1.0 continuing education credits hours in jurisdictions that accept RACE-approval.
This activity is sponsored by Blue Buffalo.
