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Nutrition for the Hospitalized Patient

Basic Science and Principles of Practice

Michael H Torosian author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc

Published:25th Jan '95

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This work offers detailed coverage of the biochemical and metabolic framework that forms the basis for the current theory of nutrition support. It presents analyses of the practical aspects of providing nutrition to hospitalized patients, and examines nutrition support in critical care and sepsis, cancer, gastrointestinal disease, cardiac and pulmonary disease, burns, renal failure, newborns and children, pregnancy, AIDS, neurological impairment and perioperative patients.

"From the reviewers. . . This book should be on the shelf of every nutrition support practitioner. . .. . . .more uniquely, the book includes comprehensive chapters on nutrition and immune function, cytokines, and alternative lipids. It also has a thorough chapter on the role of anabolic hormones as an adjunct therapy in nutrition support. . ... . . .The chapters on pediatrics and neurology are especially comprehensive. This book does an excellent job of integrating research concepts with practical applications. The authors display complex information in a very readable, easy-to-understand format, which is why entire disciplinary teams of nutrition professionals will find this book comprehensive and current."
---Journal of the American Dietetic Association

ISBN: 9780824792923

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1496g

712 pages