Artificial nutrition support in clinical practice
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Artificial nutrition support in clinical practice
Edward Arnold, 1995
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  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Of increasing interest in clinical nutrition world-wide is the role of diet in the recovery of hospital patients. The subject remains poorly understood by the non-specialist however, even though these are the personnel chiefly responsible for the administration of nutritional support in the clinical setting. This book provides a complete reference source for all clinical departments and interested physicians covering every aspect of nutritional support from its scientific disease states.
Table of Contents
- Metabolic response to starvation, injury and sepsis
- protein and amino acid metabolism in the whole body and in the tissues
- energy metabolism
- Liver and nutrient metabolism
- physiology of nutrient absorption and patterns of intestinal metabolism
- the immune system and nutritional support
- malnutrition in hospitalized patients and assessment of nutrition support
- nutrition assessment
- adult macronutrient requirements
- adult micronutrient requirements
- paediatric nutrition requirements
- the role of a nutrition support team
- oral diet administration and supplementation
- enteral nutrition - tubes and techniques of delivery
- enteral diet choices and formulations
- complications of enteral nutrition
- paediatric enteral nutrition
- home enteral nutrition
- venous access for parenteral nutrition
- Parenteral nutrition substrates
- parenteral nutrition formulation
- metabolic complications of parenteral nutrition
- paediatric parenteral nutrition
- home parenteral nutrition in adults
- peripheral administration of total parenteral nutrition
- nutrition support - in liver disease
- in trauma and sepsis
- in renal disease
- in respiratory disease
- in inflammatory bowel disease
- during the acute care of moderately or severely burned patients
- for intensive care units
- for the surgical patient
- in AIDS/HIV
- in oncology patients
- in the elderly
- in the short bowel syndrome.
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