Growth Failure – A New Roadmap for a Common Problem

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As of June 1st, 2024, this webinar will no longer be approved for 1.25 CPEU by the Commission on Dietetic Registration.
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Once an infant has been flagged as having growth failure, everyone is on high alert – especially parents. As health professionals, we know it’s important to take great care in how these cases are addressed.

Are there new tools available to help guide us in our management of infants with growth failure? Thankfully, yes!

Join us for a case study on baby Lloyd. He’s a 9-month old little one fed breastmilk, formula and solids who isn’t growing as expected. We’ll take you through a new growth failure roadmap for infants like Lloyd and share our best practices and tips.

If you’re new to pediatrics (or you want to be working in peds!), or want to update your practice, this webinar for you.

Webinar Rating & Reviews

People love our Webinar on Growth Failure!

“For someone that has a decent amount of experience in pediatrics, I feel this webinar was a good refresher to make sure that I was still up to date.”

“I thought the whole webinar was great. Very informative with good detail but easy to follow and comprehend. I appreciated following a single case study though the whole process.”

“Love the real life case study. I got to compare what I would do to what the presenters would do, and learn the rationale behind their approach.”

“I thought the practical interventions was very helpful. As a relatively new Peds RD, I feel like a lot of time is spent on the calculations (which ARE important), but I haven’t seen a lot of talks discuss interventions like self feeding, pros and cons for solids vs liquids for increasing calories, timing of feeds, autonomy, etc. Made a lot of sense but I hadn’t thought of some of those things before.”

As a pediatric dietitian, referrals for infants with growth concerns are not ones we need to go digging for. These babies cross our paths regularly. The healthcare team is on high alert and parents are usually wondering where they went wrong. These cases require a great degree of sensitivity and compassion.

In the case of baby Lloyd, his growth is faltering and interest in solid foods is minimal.

Now is the time to dig deeper and determine the root cause.

Combining our years of experience and the most recent evidence and tools, we’ll let you in on the questions we ask, our recommendations and alternatives we consider.

This course is for you if...

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    You have limited prior exposure to infant nutrition or you lack training and/or access to experienced pediatric dietitians

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    You feel unsure how to sensitively address growth concerns with parents

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    You want to ensure you don’t miss any key questions in your assessment

Using a case study format, we’ll share Lloyd’s story to help outline:

  • A *NEW* roadmap for management of term infants with growth failure
    • Step-by-step algorithm to guide your practice
  • Strategies and tools when looking at growth and malnutrition
    • The foundation of your assessment
  • Techniques for assessing intake in infants
    • Key questions to ask and calculations to help with your plan
  • Practical considerations and common challenges
    • Look into our thought process behind our recommendations and how we address common issues

Speaker(s)

Meet Your Instructors

Charlene Kennedy and Julie Larocque are pediatric dietitians and co-founders of Nutrition Masterclass. After working together at their local children’s hospital (CHEO) for many years, they teamed up to form Nutrition Masterclass as a way to share their experiences working with the vulnerable pediatric population.

Julie’s passion is pediatric intensive care and inpatient complex care medicine. Charlene’s niche was seeing high risk and complex newborns in their home, followed by an eventual transition to pediatric private practice. Join Charlene and Julie as they take you under their wing to share their evidence-based and practical knowledge. They provide you with the tools you need to increase your confidence and provide families with advice that makes a difference.