About POIeducation.org™

POIeducation.org™ is an educational curriculum incorporating a series of activities. It is designed to provide an interdisciplinary audience with a comprehensive continuing medical education program that reflects evolving strategies for the management of patients with postoperative ileus (POI). To achieve successful clinical outcomes in the care of patients with POI, practitioners must keep abreast of the latest information and best practices for effective multimodal management.

Educational Activity Learning Objectives

• Describe the importance of improving time to gastrointestinal recovery that occurs postsurgery and consider how this affects length of hospital stay and overall quality of patient care
• Evaluate the evidence for therapeutic options that may improve gastrointestinal recovery postsurgery and integrate these efforts toward supporting overall surgical quality measures
• Describe how interprofessional collaboration surrounding gastrointestinal surgery can result in better alignment with current surgical quality measures and formulate strategies to integrate this into current practice