Index page for: Practical Handbook of Nutrition in Clinical Practice

Table of Contents Nutritional Assessment: The High Tech and Low Tech Tour (D.F. Kirby and M.H. DeLegge).Understanding Malnutrition and Refeeding Syndrome (A. Foxx-Orenstein and D.F. Kirby).Overnutrition and Obesity Management (C.M. Apovian and G.L. Jensen).Appendix I:Characteristics of the Obesity Syndromes. Nutrition in Gastrointestinal Disease: An Overview (G.G. Ginsberg and T.O. Lipman).Nutrition and the Immune System (D.L. Dent, B. Langkamp-Henken, and K.A. Kudsk).Enteral Nutrition: The Challenge of Access (D.F. Kirby and M.H. DeLegge). Appendix II: Pull Technique of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy. Push Technique of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy.Introducer (Russell) Technique of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastronomy. VERSA-PEG Technique of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastronomy.PEG/J Technique of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrojejunostomy. Enteral Feeding: Methods of Delivery, Formula Selection, and Complications (M.H. DeLegge and D.F. Kirby). Total Parenteral Nutrition (S.J. Dudrick and R. Latifi).Nutrition in Surgical Patients (R. Latifi and S.J. Dudrick).Care Management Development (R.S. Moore).Nutrition and Renal Disease (M.H. DeLegge and D.F. Kirby). Management of Patients with Short Bowel Syndrome (S.J. Dudrick and R. Latifi).Diet and Cancer Prevention: Puzzles Yet Unsolved (W.L. Banks, Jr. and R.B. Brandt).Nutrition Quackery-Facts and Fraud and Practical Counseling Advice (D.F. Kirby and J.V. Starkey).Appendix III: Consumer Nutrition Hotline. An Ethical and Legal Analysis of Enteral Nutrition (K.N. Swisher and K.B. Miller). Foods of the Future: What Will We Be Eating in the Next Century? (J.F. Borzelleca).Index.