Surgical Metabolism The Metabolic Care of the Surgical Patient /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Davis, Kimberly A. (Editor), Rosenbaum, Stanley H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; General Surgery.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

This volume is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review for clinicians with an interest in the peri-operative nutritional management of all surgical patients. The text reviews normal physiology, the pathophysiology of starvation and surgical stressors, and focuses on appropriate nutritional repletio...