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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 discovery, implementation and utilization of total parenteral nutritional support have made enormous benefits to patients; saving lives and improving clinical outcome.

Table of Contents:
Nutritional assessment: assessment and monitoring. Biology and practical use of nutrient substrates: clinical biochemistry of carbohydrate, proteins, lipids, vitamins and trace elements; current nutrient substrates; carbohydrates; lipids; amino acid replacement in critically ill patients; acute phase proteins in critically ill patients - nutritional implications; branched-chain amino acids; glutamine and intestinal immunity; glutamine and cancer; anti-methionine cancer chemotherapy; amino acids and cancer. Techniques of nutritional support: enteral nutrition - indications, monitoring and complications; enteral access - open and laparoscopic technique; indications for total parenteral technique; techniques and monitoring of total parenteral nutrition; immunomodulators as nutrition therapy; nucleic acids and nucleotides in nutrition support. Nutritional support in critically ill and trauma patients: nutrition and metabolic support in critically ill patients; cytokines and nutrition support; nutrition support of trauma and injured patients; early nutrition support in injured patients; nutrition support in burn patients; nutrition support in patients with pulmonary failure and ARDS. Nutrition support in specific diseases: nutrition support in patients with head and neck cancer; nutrition and metabolic support of short bowel syndrome; nutrition support in patients with small bowel transplantation; nutrition support in inflammatory bowel disease; nutrition support in gastrointestinal fistulas; nutrition support in gastrointestinal cancer; nutrition support in acute pancreatitis; nutrition support in chronic pancreatitis; nutrition and metabolic support in liver failure and liver transplantation; nutrition support of bone marrow transplant patients; nutrition support in renal failure; nutrition support in AIDS and other disorders of immune deficiency; home nutrition therapy; ethics of nutrition support.

About the Author :
Rifat Latifi, M.D., Department of Surgery University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA. Stanley J. Dudrick, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine, St. Marys Hospital/Yale Affiliate, Waterbury, Connecticut, USA.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781570595950
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Landes Bioscience
  • Height: 127 mm
  • No of Pages: 498
  • Width: 203 mm
  • ISBN-10: 157059595X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 750 gr


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