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

By Michael H. Torosian

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824792920
• ISBN13: 9780824792923
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 712 Pages
• Weight: 3.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.2" x 10.2"