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Nutrition for the Hospitalized Patient
Basic Science and Principles of Practice
- 712 pages
- English
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This work offers detailed coverage of the biochemical and metabolic framework that forms the basis for the current theory of nutrition support. It presents analyses of the practical aspects of providing nutrition to hospitalized patients, and examines nutrition support in critical care and sepsis, cancer, gastrointestinal disease, cardiac and pulmo
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MedicineTable of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Half Title
- 1. Carbohydrate Metabolism
- 2. Protein Metabolism
- 3. Lipid Metabolism
- 4. Nutrition and Wound Healing
- 5. Nutrition and Immune Function
- 6. Nutrition and Cytokines
- 7. Alternative Lipids
- 8. Vitamins
- 9. Trace Elements
- 10. Amino Acids as Specific Therapy in Human Disease
- 11. Anabolic Hormones in Nutritional Support
- 12. Nutritional Assessment
- 13. Basic Concepts of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition
- 14. Total Parenteral Nutrition Solutions
- 15. Enteral Formulas: An Update
- 16. Vascular Access Techniques
- 17. Enteral Feeding Techniques
- 18. Complications of Parenteral and Enteral Nutritional Support
- 19. Nutrition in Critical Illness and Sepsis
- 20. Nutrition and Cancer
- 21. Perioperative Nutritional Support
- 22. Nutrition in Gastrointestinal Disease
- 23. Nutrition in Burns
- 24. Nutrition in Cardiac and Pulmonary Disease
- 25. Nutrition in Patients with Renal Failure
- 26. Nutrition in Newborn and Pediatric Patients
- 27. Nutrition in the Pregnant Patient
- 28. Metabolic and Nutritional Disorders in the HIV-Positive and AIDS Patient
- 29. Nutrition and the Neurologically Impaired Patient
- 30. Nutrition and Aging
- 31. Home Nutrition Support
- 32. Nutrition and Disease Prevention
- 33. Cost-Effectiveness of Nutrition Therapy
- 34. Legislative Challenges
- Index
- About the Editor
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