Prescribing Adult Intravenous Nutrition
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Author(s): P. Austin and M. Stroud
Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press
ISBN: 9780853696582
Format: softback
300pp
Price: £29.95
Review Date: 04 April 2007
Review: Intravenous nutrition (IVN) involves the administration of nutrients, electrolytes, minerals and fluids directly into a patient’s veins. It is used in patients whose gastrointestinal absorption of food and/or fluids is inadequate, unsafe or inaccessible. The procedure is not, however, without risk. This book focuses on the prescribing process of intravenous nutrition support. It begins by outlining why nutritional carte is important. It then discusses patients who might need oral or enteral feeding, as well as those who need IVN and explains what should be given, what can go wrong, and how to deal with any IVN-related problems. The book also covers the organisational aspects of nutritional care, emphasising that doctors, nurses, dieticians and pharmacists must work together in multidisciplinary nutrition support teams to make the right decisions on the wards.