Short Bowel Syndrome: 1

Learning Objectives:

1. To recognise the most common causes of short bowel syndrome.

2. To understand the physiologic and nutritional consequences of short bowel syndrome.

3. To know that the location and extent of intestinal resection determines the severity of short bowel syndrome.

4. To be familiar with the management of patients with short bowel syndrome in the immediate post-operative, late post-operative, and outpatient setting.

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