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Artificial Nutrition Support

Artificial Nutrition Support

Artificial Nutrition Support

In Clinical Practice
2nd Edition
Jason Payne-James, Central Middlesex Hospital, London
George Grimble, University of Surrey, Roehampton
David Silk, Central Middlesex Hospital, London
July 2001
Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Hardback
9781900151979
$424.00
USD
Hardback

    Any healthcare professional with, or developing an interest in, clinical nutrition will be able to use this textbook as their sole source of information for the formation of a clinical nutrition support service of excellence. The first three parts of the book will enable a clear perspective of the metabolism and physiology of clinical nutrition to be related to the practical application of support techniques. The fourth part of the book highlights the role of nutrition support in specific disease groups. A number of additional chapters have been added, and modifications made to the content of chapters from the first edition to cover newer areas or areas of omission.

    • Internationally renowned authorship team
    • Builds on the successful formula of the first edition and includes much new and updated material in fast-moving areas

    Product details

    July 2001
    Hardback
    9781900151979
    816 pages
    254 × 195 × 46 mm
    2.155kg
    100 b/w illus.
    Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Metabolic response to starvation, injury and sepsis
    • 2. Protein and amino acid metabolism in the whole body and in the tissues
    • 3. Energy metabolism
    • 4. Liver and nutrient metabolism
    • 5. Cytokines and nutrition
    • 6. Physiology of nutrient absorption and patterns of intestinal metabolism
    • 7. The immune system and nutrition support
    • 8. Malnutrition in hospitalised patients and assessment of nutrition support
    • 9. Nutrition assessment
    • 10. Adult macronutrient requirements
    • 11. Adult micronutrient requirements
    • 12. Paediatric nutrition requirements
    • 13. Nutrition, appetite control and disease
    • 14. The role of a nutrition support team
    • 15. Hospital food as treatment
    • 16. Oral diet administration supplementation
    • 17. Enteral nutrition tubes and techniques of delivery
    • 18. Enteral diet choices and formulations
    • 19. Complications of enteral nutrition
    • 20. Paediatric enteral nutrition
    • 21. Home enteral nutrition
    • 22. Venous access for parenteral nutrition
    • 23. Parenteral nutrition substrates
    • 24. Parenteral nutrition formulation
    • 25. Metabolic complications of parenteral nutrition
    • 26. Paediatric parenteral nutrition
    • 27. Home parenteral nutrition
    • 28. Nutrition support in liver disease
    • 29. Nutrition support in trauma and sepsis
    • 30. Nutrition support in renal disease
    • 31. Nutrition support in respiratory disease
    • 32. Nutrition and inflammatory bowel disease
    • 33. Nutrition support during the acute care of moderately or severely burnt patients
    • 34. Nutrition support for the intensive care unit
    • 35. Nutrition support for the surgical patients
    • 36. Nutrition support in patients with human immunodeficiency virus
    • 37. Nutrition support in patients with cancer
    • 38. Nutrition support in the elderly
    • 39. Fluid and nutrition support in the short bowel syndrome
    • 40. Nutrition support in pancreatic disease
    • 41. Cost-effectiveness of nutrition support
    • 42. Role of enteral and parenteral nutrition.
      Contributors
    • M. Elia, M. Rennie, D. Cuthbertson, I. MacDonald, J. Webber, R. Sherwood, R. Grimble, G. Grimble, V. Heatley, K. Bodger, C. Pennington, A. Sitges-Serra, G. Franch-Arcas, H. Sauerwein, J. Romihn, A. Shenkin, P. Milla, A. Ballinger, M. Clark, R. Burnham, S. Barton, S. Allison, I. Hessov, J. Payne-James, D. Silk, A. MacDonald, C. Holden, T. Johnson, A. Micklewright, D. Palmer, J. MacFie, P. Furst, P. Stehle, B. McElroy, J. Nordenstrom, A. Thorell, J. Puntis, B. Messing, C. Wicks, J. Takala, G. Brunori, T. Felbinger, M. Gassull, J. Cunningham, J. Wernerman, K. Hulsewe, G. Griffin, D. Macallan, F. Bozzetti, G. Blandford, J. Nightingale, S. McClave, C. Green, S. Gabe, M. Allwood, D. Smithard

    • Editors
    • Jason Payne-James , Central Middlesex Hospital, London
    • George Grimble , University of Surrey, Roehampton
    • David Silk , Central Middlesex Hospital, London