Main description:

This book provides the reader with an understanding of human nutritional and metabolic physiology and how it goes wrong in illness. Divided into three major sections, the volume instructs the reader on how and when to use nutritional support, and includes a summary of the published outcome studies on the application of nutritional support to the management of common illnesses. In this way, the book supplies the reader with all the known information on how to make the best judgment of when, what and how to feed sick patients.

Authored by a renowned expert in the field, The Principles and Practice of Nutritional Support is a valuable resource for gastroenterologists, surgeons, critical care physicians, endocrinologists, and all those involved with patient-care, both in hospital, in rehabilitation, or at home.

Contents:

Section 1: The Principles

Chapter 1: Cell Biology
Chapter 2: Physiology of Human Nutrition: Starvation and Obesity
Chapter 3: Physiology of Digestion and Absorption: the interdependence between food and the gut Chapter 4: Pathophysiology: Nutrition in Illness
Chapter 5: Nutritional Support

Section 2: The Practice

Chapter 6: The Nutrition Support Team
Chapter 7: Key Principles for Nutritional Intervention
Chapter 8: Enteral Nutrition
Chapter 9: Parenteral Feeding
Chapter 10: Nutritional Support at Home

Section 3: Diseases That Affect Digestion, Absorption and Assimilation

Chapter 11: Permanent Intestinal Failure and the Short Bowel Syndrome
Chapter 12: Small Bowel Transplantation
Chapter 13: Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis
Chapter 14: Liver Disease
Chapter 15: Renal Disease
Chapter 16: Nutrition Support in the Obese
Chapter 17: Nutritional Support in the Elderly
Elizabeth A O'Keefe