Nutrition for the Hospitalized Patient: Basic Science and Principles of Practice (Hardcover)

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.