Introduction

Body Compartments

BIA Method Comparison

Uses

BIA Testing

Troubleshooting

Interpretation

Notes on Obesity

Phase Angle

Trending Information

Case Studies

Reimbursement

Resources

Appendices

Post-Test

 

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  BIA Course Instructions
If you are a returning user and want to go directly to the Post-Test, click here 
Welcome to the “On-Line BIA Workshop”. We hope you will find this workshop a valuable learning experience to enhance your clinical skills. We anticipate that it will take you approximately three hours to complete the course. You are welcome to sign on several times to complete the process as needed.  Please use the same user name and password each time you visit.

 Approvals:

This course does not award CE credits at this time.
  

 

How the “On-Line Course-Taking” Process Works

Assumptions

This course assumes you have a working knowledge of body composition, at least as far as understanding the compartmentalization of lean and fat tissues. Because you are expected to have a baseline understanding of body composition as mentioned above, this course qualifies as Category II CPE.
 
  

  Features

For each table that shows weights in pounds and height in inches there is a link you can click to see the table in metric measures.  If you experience trouble with this feature, please be assured that the information you need to complete the post-test is within the written text.
If you own or otherwise have access to a BIA machine, you may want to try it out on a friend or other friendly and willing person before you apply it to your clinical practice. During your trial period of using this technology, feel free to email any questions to the author Cade Fields-Gardner, MS, RDN, LDN, CD, Continuing Education Director at Hi-R-Ed Online University .
  

  Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course you should be able to do the following things:

  1.  List criterion (gold standard) measures for body compartments that are used in the development of predictive equations.

  2. Discuss the validity and precision of BIA measures in relation to criterion methods.

  3. Differentiate between linear and exponential equations used to predict body compartment volumes.

  4. Discuss the limitations of body composition evaluation by tetrapolar BIA.

  5. Discuss the uses of body composition evaluation in a clinical setting.

  6. Describe a multi-compartment body composition model.

  7. Discuss the physiologic basis for body compartment increases and decreases.

  8. Interpret a standard three-compartment body composition report.

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