1st Edition

Nutrition for the Hospitalized Patient Basic Science and Principles of Practice

By Michael H. Torosian Copyright 1995
712 Pages
by CRC Press

712 Pages
by CRC Press

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... Read more

Foreword (Jonathan E. Rhoads)

Preface

Contributors

I Basic Space

Carbohydrate Metabolism

Malayappa Jeevanandam

Protein Metabolism

T. Peter Stein

Lipid Metabolism

Anders E. Ulland and Michael D. Caldwwell

Nutrition and Wound Healing

Jorge E. Albina

Nutrition and Immune Function

John M. Daly and Arnold D. K. Hill

Nutrition and Cytokines

William A. Thompson, Jr., Susette M. Coyle, and Stephen F. Lowry

Alternative Lipids

Manjakkollai P. Veerabagu, George L. Blackburn, and Edward A. Mascioli

Vitamins

Maria R. Mascarenhas

Trace Elements

Lisa D. Unger

Amino Acids as Specific Therapy in Human Disease

Keith Gardiner and Adrian Barbul

Anabolic Hormones in Nutritional Support

Thomas R. Ziegler and Danny O. Jacobs

II Principles of Practice

Nutritional Assessment

Virginia M. Herrmann

Basic Concepts of Eternal and Parental Nutrition

Scott M. Berry, Joseph A. Lacy, and Michael S. Nussbaum

Total Parental Nutrition Solutions

George Melnik, Marta J. Brooks, and Michael H. Torosian

Eternal Formulas: An Update

Stacey J. Bell, Christine S. Apour, Peter A. Burke, and R. Armour Forse

Vascular Access Techniques

Elizabeth P. Steinhaus and H. Richard Alexander

Eternal Feeding Techniques

Robert C. Gorman, Michael L. Nance, and Jon B. Morris

Complications of Parenteral Nutrition Solutions

Daniel T. Dempsey

Nutrition in Critical Illness and Sepsis

Scott M. Berry and Robert H. Bower

Nutrition and Cancer

David B. Pearlstone, Peter W. T. Pisters, and Murray F. Brennan

Perioperative Nutritional Support

Gordon P. Buzby and Christian D. Schunn

Nutrition in Gastrointestinal Disease

Mark J. Koruda and Susan T. Fussell

Nutrition in Burns

Reginald J. Franciose and C. Edward Hartford

Nutrition in Cardiac and Pulmonary Disease

Jacqueline Lappin and Michael H. Torosian

Nutrition in Patients with Renal Failure

Lawrence J. Hak

Nutrition in Newborn and Pediatric Patients

Edward G. Ford

Nutrition in the Pregnant Patient

Ann Coffey

Metabolic and Nutritional Disorders in the HIV-Positive and AIDS Patient

David Heber, N. Simon Tchekmedyian, Maureen Galvin, and Michael M. Meguid

Nutrition and the Neurologically Impaired Patient

Nancy J. Evans and Charlene W. Compher

Nutrition and Aging

David A. Lipschitz

Home Nutrition Support

Susan Curtas, Douglas Seidner, Laura Matarese, Rex Speerhas, and Ezra Steiger

Nutrition and Disease Prevention

Donald D. Hensrud and Douglas C. Heimburger

Cost-Effectiveness of Nutrition Therapy

Jay M. Mirtallo

Legislative Challenges

Lynne M. Murphy

Index

Biography

Michael H. Torosian

"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