Nutrition for the Hospitalized Patient

Download or read book Nutrition for the Hospitalized Patient written by Torosian and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1995-01-25 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.