Nutrition and Gastrointestinal Disease

About this book

A practical guide to nutrition support for gastroenterologists, from the Clinical Gastroenterology series. Thirteen chapters cover nutritional assessment and the effect of malnutrition on outcome, then nutrition in inflammatory bowel disease, liver failure, acute pancreatitis, coeliac disease, GI cancer, short bowel syndrome and obesity. The final chapters deal with enteral access and enteral feeding, parenteral nutrition, vascular access for parenteral nutrition and nutrition-based home care. It is intended as a hands-on reference for clinicians whose training included little formal nutrition teaching.