Join our speaker, Dr. Melanie L. Schmidt, for a virtual lecture on Bowel Management Strategies for Medically Complex Children and Youth. Gain insight into the underlying causes and risk factors.

• Understand the underlying mechanisms and risk factors contributing to constipation in children with complex medical conditions.
• Recognize pharmacologic options that are most effective in addressing the underlying mechanisms of constipation in each patient
• Evaluate and recommend non-pharmacological approaches to enchance bowel management in medically complex children
• Identify when further diagnostic evaluation or specialized referral to pediatric gastroenterology is necessary for the management of constipation