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PARENTERAL NUTRITION AND THE SURGICAL PATIENT
Under the responsability of Pr Antonio Sitges-Serra
Parenteral Nutrition and the Surgical Patient summarizes the basic nutritional knowledge that should be an integral part of the educational background of all junior and senior surgeons involved in the management of complex intrabdominal diseases. The most relevant pathophysiological knowledge concerning the mechanisms leading to malnutrition of the surgical patient have been reviewed as well as the basic concepts on nutritional assessment, the need for pre- or postoperative nutritional support or the response of the malnourished patients to intravenous feeding.
The reader will also find in these pages a description of the main nutritional problems of the more common diseases that surgeons face in the everyday practice such as mesenteric infarction, severe pancreatitis, short bowel syndrome, or enterocutaneous fistulas. Emphasis has also been given to the recognition of severe malnutrition and the meaning of hypoalbuminemia in the preoperative setting. Finally, the most relevant complications of parenteral nutrition support have been updated with a special accent put on its septic complication.
The aim of the monograph is to present a synthesis and an update of the most well founded knowledge that has gradually built up in the last 25 years during which parenteral nutrition has become a routine therapeutic adjunct.
Language: English
Edited by the Danone Institute of Belgium
Published in 1999
193 pages
To download the entire monograph, click here.
For more information about this initiative, you can contact the Danone Institute of Belgium.
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