Table of Contents

Part I Rationale for nutritional support: the importance of nutrition in medical practice - Patricia Queen Samour, MMSc, RD and George L. Blackburn, MD, PhD; malnutrition and related complications - Christopher Still, MS, DO, Caroline Apovian, MD and Gordon L. Jensen, MD, PhD; the comprehensive nutritional assessment - Jane E. Heetderks-Cox, RD, CNSD; macronutrient requirements - Angela M. Ogawa, RD, CNSD; micronutrient therapy - Thomas G. Baumgartner, Pharm.D., M.Ed., BCNSP, George Henderson, Ph.D., Susan L. Baumgartner, Pharm.D., MBA; perioperative nutritional interventions - Robert C. Gorman, MD and Gordon P. Buzby, MD. Part II Parenteral nutrition: indications of parenteral nutrition - Carl T. Bergren, MD; intravenous access - E. Kerry Gallivan, MD, MPH., Peter N. Benotti, MD; admixture considerations - Yoshimi L. Clark, PharmD, BCNSP and Vernon T. Lew, RPh, BCNSP; peripheral parenteral nutrition - Linda M. Codina, RD, CNSD; disease specific and patient-specific formulations, Wendy Swails Bollinger, RD and Timothy J. Babineau, MD; TPN and drug delivery - George Melnick, PharmD, BCNSP; complications of TPN and PPN and their prevention - Mitchell V. Kaminski, Jr, MD. Part III Enteral nutrition: the benefits of early enteral nutrition - Peter C. Muskat, MD; enteral access options - Robert C. Gorman, MD, Jon B. Morris, MD and James L. Mullen, MD; selection of enteral formulas - Elaine B. Trujillo, MS, RD and Stacey J. Bell, DSc, RD; special nutrients for gut feeding - Scott A. Shikora, MD; prevention and management of enteral feeding complications - Peter G. Janu, MD, Gayle Minard, MD and Kenneth A. Kudsk, MD. Part IV Special situations in nutritional support; TPN in the diabetic patient - John K. Siepler, PharmD, BCNSP and Stephen Phinney, MD, PhD; patients with renal, liver or respiratory failure - Douglas L. Seidner, MD, Raed Dweik, MD and Bharat Gupta, MD; nutritional support and pancreatitis - Virginia Herrmann, MD and M. Patricia Fuhrman, RD, CNSD; nutritional support in the patient with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) - J. Elizabeth Tuttle-Newhall, MD and Edward A. Mascioli, MD; the cancer patient - Faith D. Ottery, MD, PhD; patients with inflammatory bowel disease - Richard E. Karulf, MD; nutritional assessment and therapy in abdominal organ transplantation - Jeffrey A. Lowell, MD and Mary Ellen Beindorff, RD; the severely obese patient - an approach to management - Donald R. Duerksen, MD and R. Armour Forse, MD, PhD; the critically-ill patient - Scott A. Shikora, MD; nutrition in trauma and burns - David W. Voigt, MD, Maj USA MC, Jack Fitzpatrick, MD and Basil A. Pruitt, MD, Col USA MC; nutritional support and pregnancy - Roger C. Anderson, MD, MPH, Michael C. Moore, MD, Laurie Mello Udine, RD, CNSD, MPA, LDN, Harrison D. Willcutts, MD and H. David Willcutts, Jr; paediatric nutritional support - Susan S. Baker, MD, PhD. Robert D. Baker, Jr, MD, PhD and Anne Davis, MS, RD, CNSD.