Reviews and Notes: Nutrition: Clinical Nutrition: Parenteral Nutrition
A broad and comprehensive textbook on both the biological and experimental basis for nutritional therapy and general clinical applications and several chapters discuss the problems of nutrition specific to particular medical and surgical diseases and physiologic states.
Abstract
Clinical Nutrition: Parenteral Nutrition Second edition. John L. Rombeau and Michael D. Caldwell. 920 pages. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders; 1993. $105.00. A broad and comprehensive textbook on both the biological and experimental basis for nutritional therapy and general clinical applications. Several chapters discuss the problems of nutrition specific to particular medical and surgical diseases and physiologic states such as gastrointestinal fistulas, the short-bowel syndrome, cancer, pulmonary disease, pregnancy, and old age. The index is detailed.