Main description:

This book delineates the concepts of surgical nutrition. It concentrates on nutritional needs in specific disease states of both adult and pediatric surgical patients, describes general principles of surgical nutrition, provides an assessment of the rationale for placing importance on surgical nutrition as a separate discipline and demonstrates protocol for evaluation and treatment of surgical patients with specific nutritional needs. Chapters contain information on nutritional assessment, macro and micronutrient requirements, various nutritional therapies and nutrition in specific surgical disease states.

Contents:

Introduction from Editors. General Concepts. The metabolic response to surgery. Adult and Pediatric Nutritional Assessment. Macronutrient Requirements. Micronutrient Requirements: Trace Minerals and Vitamins. Electrolyte management as part of nutrition. Nutritional Therapy. Concepts in Enteral Therapy. Enteral Access. Concepts in Parenteral Therapy. Vascular Access. Impact of Nutrition on Surgical Outcomes. Organization of a Nutritional Support Team. Home Nutritional Therapy. Management of nutrition therapy in electronic hospital records. Nutrition in Specific Surgical Disease States (Adult and Pediatric for most). Morbid Obesity. Cardiothoracic Surgery. Oncology. Critical Care. Liver Failure. Renal Failure. Pancreatic Disease and Insufficiency. Inflammatory Bowel Disease. The Geriatric Patient. Short Bowel, Intestinal insufficiency and Enterocutaneous Fistulas. Nutrition in the Pediatric Surgical Patient. Premature and Newborn Infants. Intestinal Failure. Intestinal Failure Associated Liver Disease.