Surgery Nutrition Handbook 4 (CHAPMAN & HALL NUTRITION HANDBOOKS)

This handbook provides a ready reference for the provision of nutritional care to surgical patients. The book features the "need to know" information for writing nutrition orders, assessing nutritional status, advancing diets after surgery, and dietary manipulations for surgical patients. This handbook provides practical information on the "how tos" of handling enteral or parenteral feeding complications including tube placement, metabolic disturbances, gastrointestinal abnormalities, and mechanical problems.