Basics in clinical nutrition

Obsah

CONTENTS

1. Basic concepts in nutrition

1.1. Energy and protein balance

1.2. Body composition and its measurement

1.3. Diagnosis of malnutrition - Screening and Assessment

1.4. Influence of malnutrition on physiological function

1.5.Overnutrition - functional and clinical consequences

1.6. Epidemiology of malnutrition

1.7. Nutritional requirements for health and rest and on exercise

2. Nutritional physiology and biochemistry

2.1. Appetite and its control

2.2. Energy metabolism

2.3. Carbohydrate metabolism

2.4. Lipid metabolism

2.5. Protein and amino acid metabolism

2.6. Water and electrolytes in health and disease

2.7. Physiological function and deficiency states of trace elements

2.8. Physiological function and deficiency states of vitamins

2.9. Simple and stress starvation

2.10. Injury and sepsis

2.11. Metabolic response and hypoxia

3. Organization and legal aspects

3.1. Organization of nutritional care

3.2. Ethical and legal aspects

4. Substrates used in parenteral and enteral nutrition

4.1. Energy

4.2. Carbohydrates

4.3. Lipids

4.4. Proteins and amino acids

4.5. Water and electrolytes during nutritional support

4.6. Trace elements and vitamins in parenteral and enteral nutrition

4.7. Fibre and short chain fatty acids

4.8. Immunonutrition

4.9. Role of antioxidants in nutritional support

4.10. Special substrates for parenteral nutrition

5. Enteral nutrition

5.1. Indications and contraindications for enteral nutrition

5.2. Methods of delivering enteral nutrition

5.3. Administration of enteral tube feeds

5.4. Equipment for delivering enteral nutrition

5.5. Diets for enteral nutrition

5.6. Commercially prepared formulas

5.7. Complications of enteral nutrition

6. Parenteral nutrition

6.1. Ways of delivering parenteral nutrition

6.2. Systems for parenteral nutrition

6.3. Parenteral nutrition admixtures

6.4. Drugs and nutritional admixtures

6.5. Metabolic complications of parenteral nutrition

7. Monitoring of nutritional support

7.1. Clinical monitoring

7.2. Some laboratory measurement of response to nutrition clinical studies

7.3. Refeeding syndrome

8. Nutritional support in different clinical situations

8.1. Nutritional support in severe malnutrition

8.2. Perioperative nutrition

8.3. Nutritional support in critically ill and septic patients

8.4. Nutritional support in trauma

8.5. Nutritional support in inflammatory bowel disease

8.6. Nutritional support in liver disease

8.7. Nutritional support in renal disease

8.8. Nutritional support in acute and chronic pancreatitis

8.9. Nutrition support in gastrointestinal fistulas

8.10. Nutritional support in extensive gut resections (short bowel)

8.11. Nutritional support in the diabetic patient

8.12. Nutrition in the elderly

8.13. Nutritional support in burn patients

8.14. Nutritional support in cancer

8.15. Wasting syndrome - effect of anticachectic agents

8.16. Radiation enteropathy

8.17. Nutritional support in AIDS

8.18. Nutrition in cardiac and pulmonary diseases

8.19. Nutrition therapy for neurological disorders

8.20. Nutritional support during pregnancy

8.21. Nutritional support in neonatology

8.22. Nutritional support in children and adolescents

8.23. Home artificial nutrition