Learning Objectives:
- Summarize short and long term benefits of human milk especially as it relates to low birth weight infants.
- Demonstrate confidence in communicating with parents of low birth weight infants on new developments in newborn nutrition including human milk fortifiers, other options to breast milk (e.g. donor milk).
- Describe current controlled trials of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and other outcomes using an exclusive human milk diet.
Speaker:
Steven A. Abrams, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Target Audience:
This 1 hour presentation is designed for the healthcare professional caring for premature infants.
