The Principles and Practice of Nutritional Support

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: O'Keefe, Stephen J.D (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Gastroenterology.; Clinical nutrition.; Primary care (Medicine).; Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; General Surgery.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Primary Care Medicine.; Clinical Nutrition.

This book provides the reader with an understanding of human nutritional and metabolic physiology and how it goes wrong in illness. Divided into three major sections, the volume instructs the reader on how and when to use nutritional support, and includes a summary of the published outcome studies o...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Cell Biology
• Physiology of Human Nutrition: Starvation and Obesity
• Physiology of Digestion and Absorption: the interdependence between food and the gut
• Pathophysiology: Nutrition in Illness
• Nutritional Support
• The Nutrition Support Team
• Key Principles for Nutritional Intervention
• Enteral Nutrition
• Parenteral Feeding
• Nutritional Support at Home
• Permanent Intestinal Failure and the Short Bowel Syndrome
• Small Bowel Transplantation
• Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis
• Liver Disease
• Renal Disease
• Nutrition Support in the Obese
• Nutritional Support in the Elderly.