1st Edition

Nutrition for the Hospitalized Patient Basic Science and Principles of Practice

By Michael H. Torosian Copyright 1995

    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.

    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