Michael H Torosian, Michael Ed Torosian

Nutrition for the Hospitalized Patient

Basic Science and Principles of Practice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work offers detailed coverage of the biochemical and metabolic framework that forms the basis for the current theory of nutrition support. It presents analyses of the practical aspects of providing nutrition to hospitalized patients, and examines nutrition support in critical care and sepsis, cancer, gastrointestinal disease, cardiac and pulmonary disease, burns, renal failure, newborns and children, pregnancy, AIDS, neurological impairment and perioperative patients.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 712
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 183mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1456g
• ISBN-13: 9780824792923
• ISBN-10: 0824792920
• Artikelnr.: 21386131

Autorenporträt

Michael H. Torosian

Inhaltsangabe

Science - carbohydrate metabolism
protein metabolism
lipid metabolism
nutrition and wound healing
nutrition and immune function
nutrition and cytokines
alternative lipids
vitamins
trace elements
amino acids
anabolic hormones in nutrition support; principles of practice - nutritional assessment
basic concepts of enteral and parenteral nutrition
total parenteral nutrition solutions
enteral formulas
vascular access techniques
enteral feeding techniques
complications of parenteral and enteral nutrition support
nutrition in critical illness and sepsis
nutrition in cancer patients
perioperative nutritional support
nutrition in gastrointestinal disease
nutrition in burns
nutrition in cardiac and pulmonary disease
nutrition in patients with renal failure
nutrition in newborn and pediatric patients
nutrition in pregnancy
metabolic and nutritional disorders in HIV-positive and AIDS patients
nutrition and the neurologically impaired patient
nutrition and aging. (Part Contents).