This updated edition provides comprehensive coverage of systems approaches to medical nutrition therapy. The contributors present a practical approach to the delivery of parenteral and enteral nutrition. This text covers all the basics and also includes special issues.
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Nutritional status; fluid, electrolyte and acid base balance; assessment of the gastrointestinal system; nutritional management of the adult with liver disease; renal function; surgery, sepsis and trauma; cancer therapy; respiratory disease and mechanical ventilation; macronutrient requirements; micronutrients; indirect calorimetry; ethical issues in nutritional support; team approach to nutritional care; role of the dietitian on the nutritional support service; enteral and parenteral access; enteral formulas; monitoring and complications of enteral feeding; home enteral nutrition; parenteral nutrition solutions and additives; monitoring and complications of parenteral nutrition; home parenteral nutrition; feeding the patient with impaired swallowing; short bowel syndrome; malabsorption.
