Product Description: Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) is the intravenous administration of nutrients carried out in the patient's home. This book analyzes current practices in HPN, with a view to inform best practice, covering epidemiology of HPN in regions including the UK and Europe, USA and Australia, its role in the treatment of clinical conditions including gastrointestinal disorders and cancer, ethical and legal aspects and patient quality of life...read more

Product Description: Lipids have been in clinical use as components of intravenous nutrition for over 50 years. Over the last 15 years, new and improved lipids that include olive oil and/or fish oil have replaced the more traditional ones. These new lipids offer the opportunity to deliver high amounts of fatty acids and possess different functional properties: in particular, they can influence inflammatory processes, immune responses and hepatic metabolism...read more

Product Description: University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. Pocket-sized quick-reference manual on clinical nutritional support. For residents, medical students, and clinicians. DNLM: Enteral Nutrition.

Product Description: Contains new chapters on metabolic complications, nutrition and immunity, perioperative TPN, nutritional support in the cancer patient, sepsis, and home parenteral nutrition.

Product Description: Total parenteral nutrition (TPN) is now an everyday occur­ rence in most general hospitals. Over the last two decades this therapeutic modality has been made so simple that it is no longer the province of the specialized surgeon or physician...read more

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Product Description: This revised text offers information on the scientific rationale for and clinical methodology of administering parenteral nutrition to the hospitalized or home patient. Provides biochemical and physiologic information relevant to prescribing parenteral nutrition...read more

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