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This volume is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review for clinicians with an interest in the peri-operative nutritional management of all surgical patients. The text reviews normal physiology, the pathophysiology of starvation and surgical stressors, and focuses on appropriate nutritional repletion for various common disease states. Specifically, the text addresses the severe metabolic demands created by systemic inflammation, infection, and major insults such as trauma and burns. In addition, the book addresses the growing problem of obesity in surgical populations, including appropriate strategies directed towards the metabolic management of these patients. The text is designed for clinicians across levels of training and provides clear and concise evidence based guidelines for the metabolic management and nutritional support of the surgical patient.

Written by experts in the field, Surgical Metabolism: The Metabolic Care of the Surgical Patient is a valuable resource for all clinicians involved in the care of the critically ill.

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Clear and concise evidence based guidelines for metabolic management of the surgical patient

All chapters written by experts in their fields

Provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art, review of this field

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This volume is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review for clinicians with an interest in the peri-operative nutritional management of all surgical patients. The text reviews normal physiology, the pathophysiology of starvation and surgical stressors, and focuses on appropriate nutritional repletion for various common disease states. Specifically, the text addresses the severe metabolic demands created by systemic inflammation, infection, and major insults such as trauma and burns. In addition, the book addresses the growing problem of obesity in surgical populations, including appropriate strategies directed towards the metabolic management of these patients. The text is designed for clinicians across levels of training and provides clear and concise evidence based guidelines for the metabolic management and nutritional support of the surgical patient.

Written by experts in the field, Surgical Metabolism: The Metabolic Care of the Surgical Patient is a valuable resource for all clinicians involved in the care of the critically ill.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction to Metabolism
Christy M. Lawson, Chandler A. Long, Reagan Bollig, and Brian J. Daley

Chapter 2. Fluid and Electrolytes
Bishwajit Bhattacharya and Linda L. Maerz

Chapter 3. Acid–Base Physiology
Suresh Agarwal and Amy E. Liepert

Chapter 4. Starvation
Charles Weissman and Rawhi Hashem

Chapter 5.  Metabolism in the Trauma Patient
Stephanie Gordy and Rosemary A. Kozar

Chapter 6. Burns
Michael J. Mosier and Richard L. Gamelli

Chapter 7. Obesity
Roland N. Dickerson

Chapter 8. Malignancy
Laleh G. Melstrom, Vadim Koshenkov and David A. August

Chapter 9. Sepsis and Nutrition
Laura J. Moore and Frederick A. Moore

Chapter 10. Intestinal Failure
Douglas N. Nguyen, Philbert Y. Van, Stephen A. McClave, and Robert G. Martindale

Chapter 11. Enteral Nutrition
Eric H. Bradburn and Bryan Collier

Chapter 12. Parenteral Nutrition
Vivian M. Zhao and Thomas R. Ziegler

Chapter 13. Considerations in Organ Failure
Carlos Ortiz-Leyba

Chapter 14. Endocrine Perturbations in Critical Illness
Grace S. Lee, Silvio E. Inzucchi, and Elizabeth Holt

Chapter 15. Geriatric Considerations
Michael D. Pasquale