Veterinarian training courses library : Nutrition
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Teaching goals
- To understand the diagnostic methods for identifying adverse food reactions in pets.
- To learn effective nutritional management strategies for patients with adverse food reactions.
- To explore and differentiate between the types of diets that can be utilized in managing adverse food reactions.
Teaching goals
Tips and tricks about a weight loss program: what do we see in practice and how to manage our patients.Teaching goals
- Describe and understand the refeeding syndrome
- Review the pathophysiology to better understand
- Review the treatment and how to prevent the RS
Teaching goals
- Recognize the key nutrients for patients with CKD
- Differences between kidney diets
- Nutritional management of kidney patients: difference between dogs and cats
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- Dog vs Cat food
- High sodium intake and hypertension
- Chewing treats and dental care
- Withholding food for the pancreatic patient
- Carbohydrates and diabetes in cats
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- How to identify malnutrition
- When should you start feeding a hospitalized patient
- To learn about the different types of enteral nutrition feeding methods
- To understand what and how to feed to a hospitalized patient
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- Pet food trends
- What are alternative diets?
- Myths and misconceptions about alternative diets
- To understand the possible problems related to feeding alternative diets to pets
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- To understand the main difference between dogs and cats during gestation and lactation and how it influences the way you should feed these species.
- How and what to feed a pregnant bitch/queen.
- To recognize important nutrition related disorders during gestation and lactation.
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- Recognition of common mistakes associated with the nutrition of puppies and kittens
- How to practically know when there is excess or deficiency of calories/nutrients in the patient’s diet
- How to understand and use of the growth curve charts
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- Recognition of RER, MER and DER, When and how to use
- Differences in energy requirements for dogs and cats
- Energy requirement during activity, puppies/kittens and reproduction state
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- Recognition of the importance of BCS and MCS systems
- How to correctly evaluate BCS and MCS
- Different methods to evaluate BCS
- How to use the BCS to calculate the pets’ ideal body weight
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- Recognition of the importance of including a nutritional anamnesis during the consultation
- What questions should be included
- How to formulate questions to assist in gathering information
- Tools that can be used to make the clinician's life easier
Teaching goals
- The osteoarthritic cat must benefit from a varied therapy including feeding. The nutritionist's objective is to target 3 points of attention
- body weight management
- dietary composition (and the appropriateness of using nutritional supplements)
- adaptations to be made in cats suffering concomitantly from other chronic diseases.
Teaching goals
- Understand what a cereal-free diet is
- Know how to differentiate between cereal-free, gluten-free and starch-free diets
- Know whether there are any indications for a cereal-free diet.
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- Presenting weighty arguments
- Practical rationing
