Pediatric Critical Care Nutrition

Description

Understand the unique nutritional needs of infants and children in the pediatric critical care unit

Written with the goal of shortening recovery time and improving overall clinical outcomes, Pediatric Critical Care Nutrition is the first text to offer comprehensive, in-depth coverage of the nutritional needs of infants and children in the pediatric care unit. This practical text imparts basic concepts, critically appraises the literature, and provides a complete review of the key principles of pediatric critical care nutrition.

Combining clinical strategies with a compilation of available evidence, Pediatric Critical Care Nutrition, covers essential topics such as:

• Metabolic alterations and nutrients in the critically ill child
• Delivery of nutrition support to the critically ill child
• Disease-related nutrition considerations including burns and wound healing, solid-organ transplantation, renal and pulmonary failure, gastrointestinal issues, cancer, obesity, and more
• Practical aspects of the delivery of nutrition support

Optimum nutrition therapy is essential during the entire continuum of critical illness until recovery, and requires the multidisciplinary awareness, knowledge, and effort taught in this groundbreaking text.

Contents

Section 1 Metabolic alterations and nutrients in the critically ill child
Chapter 1 Metabolic response to stress (includes Carbohydrate, protein and lipid metabolism)
Chapter 2 Nutrition assessment and monitoring
Chapter 3 Energy and macronutrient requirements in the critically ill child
Chapter 4 Micronutrient requirements in the critically ill child
Chapter 5 Fluid-electrolyte and acid base requirements

Section 2 Delivery of nutrition support to the critically ill child
Chapter 7 Parenteral versus enteral nutrition
Chapter 8 Nutrition in low flow states: Influence of critical illness on gut function and microenvironment
Chapter 9 Enteral nutrition in the criticially ill child
Chapter 10 Parenteral nutrition in the criticially ill child (including parenteral vs enteral support)

Section 3 Disease-related nutrition considerations
Chapter 13 Neonate
Chapter 14 Trauma including traumatic brain injury
Chapter 15 Burns and wound healing
Chapter 16 Solid-organ transplantation
Chapter 17 Pulmonary failure
Chapter 18 Cardiovascular disease (including ECMO)
Chapter 19 Renal failure
Chapter 20 Gastrointestinal issues including hepatic failure and acute pancreatitis
Chapter 21 Nutrition for the postoperative cardiothoracic patient
Chapter 22 Nutrition support of the Pediatric Surgical ICU patient
Chapter 23 Systemic inflammatory response and sepsis
Chapter 24 Cancer and immunodeficiency
Chapter 25 Metobolic diseases
Chapter 26 Care of the chronically critically ill child

Section 4 Practical aspects in the delivery of nutrition support
Chapter 27 Practical and Nursing considerations in the provision of nutrition support to the critically ill child
Chapter 28 Case studies