From Nutrition Support to Pharmacologic Nutrition in the ICU
From Nutrition Support to Pharmacologic Nutrition in the ICU

Author: Claude Pichard

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 3642571190

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Critically ill and critically injured patients require specialized nutrition support to avoid the complications of progressive malnutrition. There is a paucity of information providing practical solutions to these difficult clinical problems. From Nutrition Support to Pharmacologic Nutrition in the ICU focuses on the theoretical and practical aspects of the management of this high-risk patient population. Each chapter presents a state-of-the-art discussion of nutritional and metabolic issues relevant to this resource-intensive patient population and contains current references, liberal tables and figures, and the personal insights of recognized international leaders in this field.

Anesthetic Pharmacology
Anesthetic Pharmacology

Author: Alex S. Evers

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-03-10

Total Pages: 2902

ISBN-13: 1139497022

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In recent years our understanding of molecular mechanisms of drug action and interindividual variability in drug response has grown enormously. Meanwhile, the practice of anesthesiology has expanded to the preoperative environment and numerous locations outside the OR. Anesthetic Pharmacology: Basic Principles and Clinical Practice, 2nd edition, is an outstanding therapeutic resource in anesthesia and critical care: Section 1 introduces the principles of drug action, Section 2 presents the molecular, cellular and integrated physiology of the target organ/functional system and Section 3 reviews the pharmacology and toxicology of anesthetic drugs. The new Section 4, Therapeutics of Clinical Practice, provides integrated and comparative pharmacology and the practical application of drugs in daily clinical practice. Edited by three highly acclaimed academic anesthetic pharmacologists, with contributions from an international team of experts, and illustrated in full colour, this is a sophisticated, user-friendly resource for all practitioners providing care in the perioperative period.

Textbook of Post-ICU Medicine
Textbook of Post-ICU Medicine

Author: Robert D. Stevens

Publisher: Academic

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 649

ISBN-13: 0199653461

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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 in Critical Care
Nutrition in Critical Care

Author: Peter Faber

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-03-06

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1107669014

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

Nutrition Support for the Critically Ill Patient
Nutrition Support for the Critically Ill Patient

Author: Ph.D., Gail A. Cresci

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 709

ISBN-13: 1420039199

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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

From Nutrition Support to Pharmacologic Nutrition in the ICU
From Nutrition Support to Pharmacologic Nutrition in the ICU

Author: Claude Pichard

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2000-05-11

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 9783540640875

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Critically ill and critically injured patients require specialized nutrition support to avoid the complications of progressive malnutrition. There is a paucity of information providing practical solutions to these difficult clinical problems. From Nutrition Support to Pharmacologic Nutrition in the ICU focuses on the theoretical and practical aspects of the management of this high-risk patient population. Each chapter presents a state-of-the-art discussion of nutritional and metabolic issues relevant to this resource-intensive patient population and contains current references, liberal tables and figures, and the personal insights of recognized international leaders in this field.

Critical Care for Postgraduate Trainees
Critical Care for Postgraduate Trainees

Author: Adam Brookes

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2005-01-28

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0340809671

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Critical care medicine is a complex, demanding and constantly changing field. Recent changes in postgraduate medical training mean that trainees from many disciplines, including surgery, medicine and anaesthesia, are increasingly involved with the management of these challenging patients on the ward, and in high dependency units or intensive care. This book provides registrars and senior trainees in higher surgical, medical and anaesthetic training programmes with an up-to-date resource in critical care. The text provides a succinct summary of the key topics in this field, with discussion of recent advances, key papers and evidence-based practice where appropriate. The increasing role of critical care medicine in postgraduate examinations has been recognized with the inclusion of suggested viva topics in each chapter.

Clinical Nutrition
Clinical Nutrition

Author: Demetre Labadarios

Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 3805574193

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Scientists from the fields of biochemistry, body composition, intensive care, medicine, nutrition, pediatrics, physiology, and surgery provided the 17 papers that were first presented at the 2001 workshop (exact date not noted). They discuss the administration of nutritional support, in particular, the questions of timing, composition, and clinical settings of such support in light of emerging evidence about the immunomodulatory effects of specific nutrients and their influence on the inflammatory response. Specific topics include fatty acids and gene expression related to inflammation, intravenous supply of functional lipid components, the contribution of trace elements to the efficacy of nutritional support, and signaling factors for gut adaptation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Nutritional Pharmacology
Nutritional Pharmacology

Author: Gene A. Spiller

Publisher:

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Abstract: Nutritional pharmacology is presented as the link between the nutritional and pharmacological health sciences and the application of both to medicine. Topics covered includes pharmacological use of nutrients and other compounds derived from foods (both in natural form or as chemically modified); the pharmacological uses of lecithin and choline; plant and marine sterols; branched amino acids;dietary fiber and other anti-nutrients; modified vitamin D compounds; retinoids; and lactulose. Each of these substanceclasses is discussed in terms of specific metabolic effects or in their relationship to specific diseases or disease treatment. The material should serve to stimulate interest in new ways to develop beneficial pharmacological agents of nutritional origin. (wz).