Artificial Nutrition Support : In Clinical Practice (Hardcover, 2 Revised edition)

1. Metabolic response to starvation, injury and sepsis; 2. Protein and amino acid metabolism in the whole body and in the tissues; 3. Energy metabolism; 4. Liver and nutrient metabolism; 5. Cytokines and nutrition; 6. Physiology of nutrient absorption and patterns of intestinal metabolism; 7. The immune system and nutrition support; 8. Malnutrition in hospitalised patients and assessment of nutrition support; 9. Nutrition assessment; 10. Adult macronutrient requirements; 11. Adult micronutrient requirements; 12. Paediatric nutrition requirements; 13. Nutrition, appetite control and disease; 14. The role of a nutrition support team; 15. Hospital food as treatment; 16. Oral diet administration supplementation; 17. Enteral nutrition tubes and techniques of delivery; 18. Enteral diet choices and formulations; 19. Complications of enteral nutrition; 20. Paediatric enteral nutrition; 21. Home enteral nutrition; 22. Venous access for parenteral nutrition; 23. Parenteral nutrition substrates; 24. Parenteral nutrition formulation; 25. Metabolic complications of parenteral nutrition; 26. Paediatric parenteral nutrition; 27. Home parenteral nutrition; 28. Nutrition support in liver disease; 29. Nutrition support in trauma and sepsis; 30. Nutrition support in renal disease; 31. Nutrition support in respiratory disease; 32. Nutrition and inflammatory bowel disease; 33. Nutrition support during the acute care of moderately or severely burnt patients; 34. Nutrition support for the intensive care unit; 35. Nutrition support for the surgical patients; 36. Nutrition support in patients with human immunodeficiency virus; 37. Nutrition support in patients with cancer; 38. Nutrition support in the elderly; 39. Fluid and nutrition support in the short bowel syndrome; 40. Nutrition support in pancreatic disease; 41. Cost-effectiveness of nutrition support; 42. Role of enteral and parenteral nutrition.