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The Whole Package: The Pharmacist’s Critical Role in Parenteral Nutrition and the Use of Multi-Chamber Bag Parenteral Nutrition

Parenteral nutrition (PN) is a life-sustaining intervention for patients unable to receive oral or enteral nutrition. Compounding of PN involves many steps that can be labor intensive to ensure that PN is accurately and aseptically produced. An approach to improving standardization to reducing errors and patient harm is through greater use of multi-chamber bag parenteral nutrition (MCB-PN). MCB-PN requires less preparation time and labor, leads to a reduction in errors, may reduce the risk of infectious complications leading to a reduction in the length of hospitalization, and is associated with a significant cost benefit compared with compounded PN. MCB-PN reduces the compounding required by pharmacists but still allows for the addition of additives prior to administration.

This educational activity will discuss appropriate patient selection for multi-chamber bag parenteral nutrition (MCB-PN) and how to safely prepare and dispense MCB-PN. This activity will also use a case-based approach to illustrate strategies to reduce the risk of errors and improve patient care in various practice settings. The activity will highlight the important role of the pharmacist in parenteral nutrition, including in healthcare settings without formal nutrition support teams.

Wednesday, Dec. 10
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. PT (12:30 - 2 p.m. ET)

Islander Ballroom I, Lower Level, Mandalay Bay North Convention Center

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Lunch is provided for this activity.

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Speakers

Phil Ayers, PharmD, BCNSP, FMSHP, FASHP, FASPEN Activity Chair
Clinical Manager
Mississippi Baptist Medical Center
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy
Jackson, Mississippi

Phil Ayers is a clinical specialist in nutrition support at Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi and serves the Department of Pharmacy as Clinical Manager. Dr. Ayers also serves as a Clinical Associate Professor with the School of Pharmacy at the University of Mississippi. He received his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Mississippi. He is a Past-President of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) and a Past Chair and a current member of the ASPEN Parenteral Nutrition Committee. Phil served on the USP Expert Compounding Committee from 2020-2025 and is Past Chair of the USP Parenteral Nutrition Subcommittee 2015-2020. Dr. Ayers was awarded the ASPEN Excellence in Nutrition Support Education Award, 2011 and the ASPEN Stanley Serlick Award for Parenteral Nutrition Safety in 2016.

Angela Bingham, PharmD, BCCCP, BCNSP, BCPS, FASHP, FASPEN, FCCM, FCCP
Acting Chair and Clinical Associate Professor
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy Saint Joseph's University
Critical Care/Nutrition Support Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
Cooper University Health Care
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dr. Angela Bingham is Chair and Clinical Professor within the Department of Pharmacy Practice at Saint Joseph's University Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Her practice experience includes serving as a Critical Care/Nutrition Support Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, New Jersey. Dr. Bingham is board certified in nutrition support, critical care, and pharmacotherapy.

Dr. Bingham’s practice, teaching, and research activities are focused on pharmacotherapy in critical illness including nutrition support therapy. She is a Fellow of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, American College of Clinical Pharmacy, and Society of Critical Care Medicine. Professional contributions in nutrition support have included: Chair, Board of Pharmacy Specialties Specialty Council on Nutrition Support Pharmacy; Chair, ASPEN Pharmacy Practice Section; as well as task forces for adult critical care nutrition guideline revisions, parenteral nutrition appropriateness consensus recommendations, and standards of practice for nutrition support pharmacists. She is an Associate Editor for Nutrition in Clinical Practice and Assistant Editor for DiPiro's Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach. Dr. Bingham was awarded the ASPEN Stanley Serlick Award for Parenteral Nutrition Safety in 2025.

Target Audience

This activity was planned to meet the educational needs of pharmacists in leadership positions including pharmacy executives, managers and supervisors, front-line clinical pharmacists and those in product procurement roles who can identify specific opportunities for multi-chamber bag parenteral nutrition (MCB-PN).

Learning Objectives

Identify patients appropriate to receive multi-chamber bag parenteral nutrition (MCB-PN)
Develop strategies for appropriate management of patients who receive MCB-PN throughout a variety of practice settings
Analyze opportunities for pharmacists to lead parenteral nutrition (PN) services in healthcare facilities without a nutrition support specialist

Agenda

11:30 a.m. – Welcome and Introductions
Phil Ayers
11:35 a.m. – Parenteral Nutrition and the Important Role of Multi-Chamber Bag Parenteral Nutrition (MCB-PN)
Phil Ayers and Angela Bingham
12:00 p.m. – Interactive Case Presentations and Discussion: Safety First! Effectively Using MCB-PN
All Faculty
12:30 p.m. – Pharmacist Involvement in Nutrition in a Practice Setting Without a Nutrition Support Service
All Faculty
12:50 p.m. – Faculty Discussion, Questions and Answers
All Faculty

Accredited for CPE

ACPE #: 0204-0000-25-413-L05-P
CE Credit: 1.5 contact hours (0.15 CEUs)
Activity Type: Application-based
Activity Fee: No charge

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