Nutrition Support

With its user-friendly and practical approach, this outstanding reference educates clinicians on the importance of timely and well-prescribed nutritional support. It provides a solid base of knowledge enabling the clinician to prescribe the safest feeding strategies for a patient's specific condition and disease state.

Contents: RATIONALE FOR NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT * The Importance of Nutrition in Medical Practice * Malnutrition and Related Complications * The Comprehensive Nutritional Assessment * Macronutrient Requirements * Miconutrients in Clinical Nutrition * Perioperative Nutritional Interventions * Parenteral Nutrition * Indications for Parenteral Nutrition * Intravenous Access * Admixture Considerations * Peripheral Parenteral Nutrition * Disease Specific and Patient-Specific Formulations * TPN and Drug Delivery * Complications of TPN and PNN and Their Prevention * ENTERAL NUTRITION * The Benefits of Early Enteral Nutrition * Enteral Access Options * Selection of Enteral Formulas * Special Nutrients for Gut Feeding * Prevention Management of Enteral Feeding Complications * SPECIAL SITUATIONS IN NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT * TPN in the Diabetic Patient * Nutrition Support in Liver, Pulmonary and Renal Disease * Nutritional Support in the Patient with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) * Nutritional Oncology: A Proactive Intefrated Approach to the Cancer Patient * Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease * Nutritional Assessment and Therapy in Abdominal Organ Transplantations * The Severely Obese Patient: An Approach to Management * Nutritional Support for the Critically Ill Patient * Nutrition in Trauma and Burns * Nutrition Support and Pregnancy * Pediatric Nutrition Support * Management of Patients on Home Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition