Nutrition for the Hospitalized Patient: Basic Science and Principles of Practice / Edition 1

by Michael H. Torosian

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780824792923
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/25/1995
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	712
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Science - carbohydrate metabolism, protein metabolism, lipid metabolism, nutrition and wound healing, nutrition and immune function, nutrition and cytokines, alternative lipids, vitamins, trace elements, amino acids, anabolic hormones in nutrition support; principles of practice - nutritional assessment, basic concepts of enteral and parenteral nutrition, total parenteral nutrition solutions, enteral formulas, vascular access techniques, enteral feeding techniques, complications of parenteral and enteral nutrition support, nutrition in critical illness and sepsis, nutrition in cancer patients, perioperative nutritional support, nutrition in gastrointestinal disease, nutrition in burns, nutrition in cardiac and pulmonary disease, nutrition in patients with renal failure, nutrition in newborn and pediatric patients, nutrition in pregnancy, metabolic and nutritional disorders in HIV-positive and AIDS patients, nutrition and the neurologically impaired patient, nutrition and aging. (Part Contents).

Editorial Reviews

"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

From the Publisher

Reviewer: Claudio Corral, MD (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)
Description: This first edition book recounts an up-to-date overview of the complexities and importance of providing effective nutritional support to hospitalized patients. It is organized in two parts, Basic Science and Principles of Practice. The book describes both the fundamental theory and the comprehensive practice of providing metabolic support in a hospital setting.
Purpose: The purpose is to explain the scientific foundation of nutritional support and to describe its clinical relevance to hospitalized patients. The authors first describe basic concepts in nutrition, and then proceed to explain specific clinical problems encountered when providing nutritional support to a variety of patients. This book reviews issues in nutritional assessment, management, delivery, complications, and cost-effectiveness of both enteral and parenteral supplementation. The information presented is not only vital for adequate patient care, but also timely in light of an increasingly diverse patient population and an increasingly complex health care environment.
Audience: The book is targeted to medical practitioners involved in the day-to-day care of hospitalized patients. It offers insight into the complexities of metabolic support and very effectively describes its implementation.
Features: The first part of the book explains in great detail the science of nutrition, and provides the reader with up-to-date reference material. The second part provides examples of order forms assessment forms as well as charts and graphs of relevant data to illustrate nutritional concepts and help the practitioner develop an effective strategy to provide nutritional support.
Assessment: This is a undoubtedly a useful book for the medical professional. It clearly outlines strategies to provide effective nutritional support to the hospitalized patient. Moreover, it discusses the fundamental scientific principles used to develop these strategies. The author and contributors are respected, credible experts in their respective fields. This book brings to attention the importance nutrition has in the morbidity and mortality of the hospitalized patient, and how to manage nutritional needs to improve overall patient care.

Doody's Review Service

3 Stars from Doody

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

This first edition book recounts an up-to-date overview of the complexities and importance of providing effective nutritional support to hospitalized patients. It is organized in two parts, Basic Science and Principles of Practice. The book describes both the fundamental theory and the comprehensive practice of providing metabolic support in a hospital setting. The purpose is to explain the scientific foundation of nutritional support and to describe its clinical relevance to hospitalized patients. The authors first describe basic concepts in nutrition, and then proceed to explain specific clinical problems encountered when providing nutritional support to a variety of patients. This book reviews issues in nutritional assessment, management, delivery, complications, and cost-effectiveness of both enteral and parenteral supplementation. The information presented is not only vital for adequate patient care, but also timely in light of an increasingly diverse patient population and an increasingly complex health care environment. The book is targeted to medical practitioners involved in the day-to-day care of hospitalized patients. It offers insight into the complexities of metabolic support and very effectively describes its implementation. The first part of the book explains in great detail the science of nutrition, and provides the reader with up-to-date reference material. The second part provides examples of order forms assessment forms as well as charts and graphs of relevant data to illustrate nutritional concepts and help the practitioner develop an effective strategy to provide nutritional support. This is a undoubtedly a useful book for the medical professional. It clearlyoutlines strategies to provide effective nutritional support to the hospitalized patient. Moreover, it discusses the fundamental scientific principles used to develop these strategies. The author and contributors are respected, credible experts in their respective fields. This book brings to attention the importance nutrition has in the morbidity and mortality of the hospitalized patient, and how to manage nutritional needs to improve overall patient care.

Claudio Corral

Addresses the nutritional problems of hospitalized patients from both a theoretical and a practical point of view. Part I, Basic Science, is a review of the science of nutrition by a series of widely known experts. Part II, Principles of Practice, begins with a review of basic concepts of enteral and parenteral nutrition, nutritional assessment, nutrient solutions, and practical aspects of providing nutrient support. Nutritional support of specific clinical populations is reviewed, followed by discussion of the effect of nutrition on aging and disease prevention. Nutritional support complications and home nutritional support are extensively reviewed. Finally, the cost-effectiveness and legislative challenges of nutritional support are discussed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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