Nutrition Support for the Critically Ill
This text provides a review of the current knowledge in both the mechanics of nourishing the critically ill and the metabolic and immunological roles nutrients play. In-depth chapters discuss disease related malnutrition as distinct from under-o
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David S. Seres Charles W. Van Way, III Editors
Nutrition Support for the Critically
NUTRITION AND HEALTH Adrianne Bendich, PhD, FASN, FACN, Series Editor
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David S. Seres • Charles W. Van Way, III Editors
Nutrition Support for the Critically Ill
Editors David S. Seres, MD, ScM, PNS. Director of Medical Nutrition Associate Professor of Medicine in the Institute of Human Nutrition Department of Medicine Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY, USA
Charles W. Van Way, III, MD, FACS, FCCM, FCCP, FASPEN Emeritus Professor of Surgery Truman Medical Center Department of Surgery University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of Medicine Kansas City, MO, USA
Nutrition and Health ISBN 978-3-319-21830-4 ISBN 978-3-319-21831-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21831-1
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Dedications
To our patients, our students and trainees, and our colleagues. And to our wives, Kesiah E. Scully and Gail E. Van Way, without whose love, support, and encouragement this work, and all we do, would not be possible.
Foreword
Nutritional support in the critically ill patient is like mother’s milk, right? Indeed, there was a time, long ago and on a planet far away, when we felt we knew all the answers to feeding the critically ill. At the end of the 1970s, when I was undertaking my Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine, it was assumed that total parenteral nutrition (TPN) would ultimately take care of our sick patients’ needs. To underscore the naivety of this concept, soon after my graduation as a neophyte intensivist at a major university medical center, I
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