Prescribing Adult Intravenous Nutrition

Patients who are unable to achieve an adequate nutritional intake via their gut are at risk of malnutrition and its many associated problems. They may, therefore, require feeding directly into a vein. Prescribing Adult Intravenous Nutrition is an introductory text offering the healthcare professional involved in nutritional support a practical guide to the broad principles and practice of adult intravenous nutrition.

Prescribing Adult Intravenous Nutrition describes:

• why nutritional care is so important
• what should be given
• what can go wrong
• how to deal with any intravenous feeding problems
• how to organise aspects of nutritional care.

Numerous illustrations and case studies help to illustrate the principles discussed.

1. The Importance of Nutritional Support
2. Oral and Enteral Tube Support
3. Intravenous Support
4. Clinical Assessment
5. Pharmaceutical Review
6. Decisions on Intravenous Nutrition
7. Fluid and Macronutrients
8. Electrolytes
9. Micronutrients
10. Prescribing for Patients with Specific Problems
11. Regimen Choice
12. Potential Complications
13. Monitoring
14. Organising Nutrition Support
15. Technical Services
16. On the Ward
Appendix 1 Stability
Appendix 2 Salts and Pharmaceutical Calculations
Appendix 3 Micronutrient Preparations
Appendix 4 High Sodium Drinks and Feeds for Short Bowel Syndrome

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01-Mar-08, The Pharmaceutical Journal
'This textbook...is both a comprehensive introduction to intravenous nutrition (IVN) and a useful reference text. The writing style is easy to read and information is provided at an accessible level for those new to the subject. This textbook covers all the areas that prescribers of parenteral nutrition should be aware of. It has relevance to all members of the healthcare team.'
Rebecca white, chairman of the British Pharmaceutical Nutrition Group. The Pharmaceutical Journal (Vol. 280) 1 March 2008

01-Jul-07, PINTT
'It is written with the medical profession in mind and gives the facts in the candid and concise manner necessary for a book of this nature'
PINNT Online. July 2007