Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: The support of critically ill patients is focused on respiration, cardiac function, renal function and the treatment of intercurrent or primary infection. However, nothing takes priority over metabolic support to sustain the possibility of recovery and to maintain the physiologic capacity for response although a thorough understanding of the complex metabolic alterations which occur following major trauma and during sepsis can provide the foundation for developing an effective nutritional prescription for each individual patient...read more

Product Description: The Practical Handbook of Nutrition in Clinical Practice is an excellent supplement to standard textbooks in nutrition support and a must-have reference for those with an interest in this area. The text reviews nutrition assessment techniques from the very basic to the latest research methods...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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