Clinical paediatric dietetics /

• Other Authors: Shaw, Vanessa (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2014.
• Edition: Fourth edition.
• Subjects: Diet Therapy.; Child.; Diet therapy for children.; MEDICAL > Pharmacology.; Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

• Title Page; Copyright; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Companion Website; Part 1: Principles of Paediatric Dietetics; Chapter 1: Nutritional Assessment, Dietary Requirements, Feed Supplementation; Introduction; Assessment of nutritional status; Expected growth in childhood; Dietary reference values; Fluid requirements; Supplementing feeds for infants with faltering growth or who are fluid restricted; Prescribing products for paediatric use; Useful links and further reading; Chapter 2: Provision of Nutrition in a Hospital Setting; Introduction
• Nutrition care planningNutritionally well inpatients; The nutritionally vulnerable and those requiring therapeutic diets; Food for those at nutritional risk or requiring therapeutic diets; Preparation of food for neutropenic patients; Part 2: Nutrition Support and Intensive Care; Chapter 3: Enteral Nutrition; Introduction; Choice of feeds; Routes of feed administration; Methods of feed administration; Enteral feeding equipment; Home enteral feeding; Feed administration and tolerance; Monitoring children on enteral feeds; Useful links; Chapter 4: Parenteral Nutrition; Introduction
• Nutrition support teamsIndications for parenteral nutrition in children; Considerations in paediatric parenteral nutrition; Nutrient requirements and solutions; Administration of parenteral nutrition; Delivery methods; Weaning off parenteral nutrition; Home parenteral nutrition; Chapter 5: Nutrition in Critically Ill Children; Introduction; Inflammatory and metabolic responses that impact on nutritional requirements; Nutritional assessment; Nutritional requirements; Nutritional management; Complications; Future research and unanswered questions; Part 3: Clinical Dietetics
• Chapter 6: Preterm InfantsIntroduction; Nutritional requirements; Interpretation of requirements; Parenteral nutrition; Minimal enteral nutrition; Enteral nutrition; Nutritional assessment; Growth; Feeding issues in special conditions; Post discharge nutrition; Weaning onto solids; Useful links; Chapter 7: Gastroenterology; Introduction; Nutritional requirements; Acute diarrhoea-fluid and dietary therapy; Food allergy in gastroenterology; Coeliac disease; Carbohydrate intolerances; Fat malabsorption; Neonatal enteropathies and protracted diarrhoea
• Modular feeds for intractable diarrhoea and short bowel syndromeInflammatory bowel disease; Disorders of altered gut motility; Use of probiotics in gastrointestinal diseases; Further reading and useful links; Chapter 8: Surgery in the Gastrointestinal Tract; Congenital Malformations; Introduction; Oesophageal atresia and tracheo-oesophageal fistula; Duodenal atresia; Hirschsprung's disease; Abdominal wall defects; Short Bowel Syndrome; Introduction; Nutritional support; Pharmocological agents; Short bowel syndrome in older children; Weaning from parenteral nutrition; Complications; Monitoring