- 498 pages
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The Biology and Practice of Current Nutritional Support
About this book
The chapters in this book vary from methods of assessing and monitoring nutritional status to those of the use of intravenous and enternal nutritional support. Practical chapters define laparoscopic placement of feeding tubes as well as the use of a variety of nutritional substrates, which can be administered in different clinical scenarios. The di
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1. Clinical Implications of Carbohydrate, Proteins, Lipids, Vitamins and Trace Elements in Nutrition Support
- 2. Current Nutrient Substrates
- 3. Biochemistry of Amino Acids: Clinical Implications
- 4. Acute Phase Proteins in Critically Ill Patients
- 5. Arginine Metabolism in Critical Care and Sepsis
- 6. Wound Healing and the Role of Nutrient Substrates
- 7. Protein Metabolism in Liver and Intestine During Sepsis: Mediators, Molecular Regulation, and Clinical Implications
- 8. Biochemical Assessment and Monitoring of Nutritional Status
- 9. Optimizing Drug Therapy and Enteral Nutrition: Detecting Drug-Nutrient Interactions
- 10. Techniques and Monitoring of Total Parenteral Nutrition
- 11. Radiologic Assessment of Nutritional and Metabolic Status
- 12. Enteral Nutrition: Indications, Monitoring and Complications
- 13. Enteral Access: Open, Endoscopic & Laparoscopic Techniques
- 14. Total Parenteral Nutrition: Current Concepts and Indications
- 15. Intestinal Adaptation: New Insights
- 16. Intestinal Regeneration and Nutrition
- 17. Nutritional and Metabolic Management of Short Bowel Syndrome
- 18. Pharmacologic Aspects of Short Bowel Syndrome
- 19. Nutritional Support in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- 20. Nutrition Support of Acute Pancreatitis
- 21. Nutritional Management of Chronic Pancreatitis: Current Concepts
- 22. Nutritional Support in Liver Failure and Liver Transplantation
- 23. Nutritional Support in Renal Transplantation
- 24. Biology of Nutrition Support in the Critically Ill Patient
- 25. Nutrition Support in Patients with Pulmonary Failure and ARDS
- 26. Nutritional Support for the Burned Patient
- 27. Nutritional Support after Small Bowel Transplantation
- 28. Nutritional Support in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer
- 29. Nutritional Support in Patients with Gastrointestinal, Pancreatic and Liver Cancer
- 30. The Treatment of Obesity
- Index