Nutrition in Critical Care

Nutrition in Critical Care
Author: Peter Faber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2014-03-06
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1107669014

Provides comprehensive and practical guidance for managing the nutritional requirements of critically ill patients and thereby improving prognosis.

Critical Care Nutrition Therapy for Non-nutritionists

Critical Care Nutrition Therapy for Non-nutritionists
Author: Mette M. Berger
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2018-02-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3319586521

This book offers a pragmatic approach to day-to-day metabolic and nutritional care based on physiological considerations. Due to the numerous controversial trials published in the last 15 years, there is no clear guidance for intensive care physicians regarding the metabolic and nutritional management of patients. This has resulted in a return to underfeeding and related complications in most ICUs worldwide as shown by the latest Nutrition Day data. Using a structured, logical approach, the book examines practical solutions for artificial feeding in complex areas of critical care (brain injuries, burns, cardiac failure, ECMO, intestinal failure, long term patient, renal failure, metabolic diseases, obesity, old patients) and discusses measurement of the results of metabolic interventions. It also includes dedicated chapters focusing on specific problems, in order to avoid complications. Critical Care Nutrition Therapy for Non-nutritionists is a valuable resource for all general ICUs and ICU subspecialties such as cardiovascular, neuro, gastrointestinal and burns ICUs.

Nutrition in Critical Care

Nutrition in Critical Care
Author: Gary P. Zaloga
Publisher:
Total Pages: 928
Release: 1994
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

Deals with nutritional support of critically ill patients. Discusses nutritional assessment, fuel metabolism, and macronutrient (protein, fat, carbohydrate, nucleic acid, mineral) and micronutrient (vitamins, trace element) metabolism. Discusses the route and timing of nutritional support, enteral feeding, parenteral nutrition, wound healing, inflammatory mediators, immunity, the gut barrier, bacterial translocation, and use of growth factors. Also discusses nutritional support of common disease states treated in critical care units, such as trauma, neuroinjury, sepsis, burns, gastrointestinal disease, respiratory and heart failure, renal failure, liver failure, AIDS, and diabetes mellitus.

Pediatric Critical Care Nutrition

Pediatric Critical Care Nutrition
Author: Praveen S. Goday
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2014-10-22
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0071798536

Understand the unique nutritional needs of infants and children in the pediatric critical care unit Written with the goal of shortening recovery time and improving overall clinical outcomes, Pediatric Critical Care Nutrition is the first text to offercomprehensive, in-depth coverage of the nutritional needs of infants and children in the pediatric care unit. This practical text imparts basic concepts, critically appraises the literature, and provides a completereview of the key principles of pediatric critical care nutrition. Combining clinical strategies with a compilation of available evidence, Pediatric Critical Care Nutrition, covers essential topics such as: Metabolic alterations and nutrients in the critically ill child Delivery of nutrition support to the critically ill child Disease-related nutrition considerations including burns and wound healing, solid-organ transplantation, renal and pulmonary failure, gastrointestinal issues, cancer, obesity, and more Practical aspects of the delivery of nutrition support Optimum nutrition therapy is essential during the entire continuum of critical illness until recovery, and requires the multidisciplinary awareness, knowledge, and effort taught in this groundbreaking text.

Nutrition Support for the Critically Ill Patient

Nutrition Support for the Critically Ill Patient
Author: Ph.D., Gail A. Cresci
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 709
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1420039199

Nutrition Support for the Critically Ill Patient: A Guide to Practice provides state-of-the-art practices and key principles of nutrition support through evidence-based medicine. Following a review of the metabolic alterations that occur during critical illness, this book discusses the nutrient requirements of critically ill patients as well

Nutrition in Intensive Care Medicine

Nutrition in Intensive Care Medicine
Author: Pierre Singer
Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2013
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3318022276

Reaching beyond traditional nutrition support The care of ICU patients has seen many improvements over the years, both with regard to technical aspects and supportive measures. The first part of this book analyzes nutritional support at various levels, ranging from the cell level to the whole-body aspect; drawing on recent prospective randomized studies, the authors propose a new approach for oral, enteral and/or parenteral nutrition. The second part underlines the interference between nutrition and outcome to reach recovery, giving to this field an increased importance for better short and long term management: The best glucose control, individualized nutritional support and the avoidance of harmful interferences is extensively discussed. The final part deals with patients suffering from multi-organ failure and the need for a better understanding of the interactions between disease and nutrition. Identification of the metabolic condition of the patient, existence or not of evidence-based medicine, expert opinion, treatment opportunities and the case manager recognizing threats are all integrated to reach the appropriate decision. This last part will help the reader to untangle the complexity of the ICU patient of the 21st century and to propose a personalized nutritional support process.

Textbook of Post-ICU Medicine

Textbook of Post-ICU Medicine
Author: Robert D. Stevens
Publisher: Academic
Total Pages: 649
Release: 2014
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199653461

Surviving critical illness is not always the happy ending that we imagine for patients. Intensive care unit (ICU) teams have traditionally focused on short term goals such as stabilizing or reversing organ system dysfunction, with little understanding of what became of patients once they left the ICU. However, research conducted in recent years has demonstrated that many ICU survivors can suffer from ill health and mental health issues for months or years to follow. The Textbook of Post-ICU Medicine: The Legacy of Critical Care identifies the long term outcomes of ICU and the steps that can be taken to improve patients' health and wellbeing. Describing the major clinical syndromes affecting ICU survivors, the book delineates established or postulated biological mechanisms of the post-acute recovery process, and discusses strategies for treatment and rehabilitation to promote recovery in the ICU and in the long term. The book serves as a unique reference for general practitioners, internists and nurses caring for long term ICU survivors as well as specialists in intensive care medicine, neurology, psychiatry, and rehabilitation medicine.

Nutrition Support for the Critically Ill

Nutrition Support for the Critically Ill
Author: David S. Seres
Publisher: Humana Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2015-11-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 331921831X

​This text provides a review of the current knowledge in both the mechanics of nourishing the critically ill and the metabolic and immunological roles nutrients play. In-depth chapters discuss disease-related malnutrition as distinct from under-or-over nourishment and the impact of nourishment in either form of malnutrition. The appropriate timing and indications for nutrition support are provided as well as advanced techniques for improving practice. A broad range of issues related to interdisciplinary practice are addressed. Useful for a wide variety of practitioners, including ICU doctors, hospitalists, and nutrition support physicians, Nutrition Support of the Critically Ill provides practical bedside advice and simplified recommendations for practice.

Oxford Textbook of Critical Care

Oxford Textbook of Critical Care
Author: Webb
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1961
Release: 2020-01-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0198855435

Now in paperback, the second edition of the Oxford Textbook of Critical Care is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary text covering all aspects of adult intensive care management. Uniquely this text takes a problem-orientated approach providing a key resource for daily clinical issues in the intensive care unit. The text is organized into short topics allowing readers to rapidly access authoritative information on specific clinical problems. Each topic refers to basic physiological principles and provides up-to-date treatment advice supported by references to the most vital literature. Where international differences exist in clinical practice, authors cover alternative views. Key messages summarise each topic in order to aid quick review and decision making. Edited and written by an international group of recognized experts from many disciplines, the second edition of the Oxford Textbook of Critical Careprovides an up-to-date reference that is relevant for intensive care units and emergency departments globally. This volume is the definitive text for all health care providers, including physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and other allied health professionals who take care of critically ill patients.