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Inpatient Management of Common Gastroenterology & Hepatology Conditions
Recorded for 2025 Fall Conference
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Activity Duration| Content Expires: | February 28, 2027 (11:55 p.m. CT)
CE for this activity will not be available after this date. |
This CE activity was recorded for the 2025 AANP Fall Conference.  | This activity includes closed captioning. |
| Delivery Note: The content for this activity was previously presented during the virtual 2025 AANP Fall Conference. If you already completed the content of this activity while attending the virtual conference, you should not complete this content a second time. Learners should only complete ONE delivery-method to earn credit. Completing multiple delivery options for the same activity is considered duplicate credit for the same content and will not be accepted by regulatory bodies. |
Overview
This presentation will focus on evaluation, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of common inpatient Gastroenterology and Hepatology conditions. This will include updates in the management of acute pancreatitis, decompensated cirrhosis, acute liver failure, alcohol related hepatitis, Gastrointestinal bleeding (upper/lower), cholangitis/choledocholithiasis, inflammatory bowel disease (flare of ulcerative colitis and Crohns disease), dysphagia, diarrhea/colitis, constipation/impactions, and ileus.
Objectives
- Discuss at least three common differentials for both upper and lower GI bleeding.
- Differentiate between cholangitis and choledocholithiasis.
- Discuss a restrictive transfusion strategy and how transfusion management changes in patients with cirrhosis.
- Describe the criteria for acute liver failure.
- Describe at least three precipitating factors for hepatic encephalopathy.
- Discuss pharmacologic management of anticoagulation during GI bleeding.
- Discuss how to differentiate oropharyngeal dysphagia from esophageal dysphagia.
- List first line pharmacologic management for patients with severe Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's disease.
- Discuss pharmacologic management for patients with hepatorenal syndrome and hepatic encephalopathy.
- Differentiate liver enzymes from labs that reflect liver function.
Speaker
Whitney Steinmetz, DNP, FNP
Disclosure
This program was planned in accordance with AANP CE Standards and Policies.
The speaker has the following disclosures: - I have nothing to disclose.
DisclaimerIndividuals who have contributed to the CE Center (content originally from the 2025 AANP Fall Conference) were carefully selected for their knowledge and experience in the subject area under review. This presentation is informational only and may contain opinions of the authors from their personal experience that do not necessarily express the opinions of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). The activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings. Clinical practice is a constantly changing process and new information becomes available every day. Neither AANP nor the contributing individuals can warrant that the material will continue to be accurate, nor do they warrant that the material is completely free of errors upon publication. Attendees and participants should appraise the information presented critically and are encouraged to consult appropriate resources for any product or device mentioned in this program.
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1.3 Contact Hour(s) of CE,
0.65 of which may be applied towards Pharmacology
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