From Nutrition Support to Pharmacologic Nutrition in the ICU

Content.- Nutrition-Related Outcome in Critical Care.- Host Defenses and Bacterial Assaults: A Delicate Balance.- From Structure to Function: What Should Be Known About Building Blocks of Protein.- Fatty Acids, Lipoproteins, and Lipid Emulsions.- Carbohydrate and Fat as Energetic Fuels in Intensive Care Unit Patients.- Trace Elements and Vitamins.- Antioxidants in Critical Illness.- Strategies for Motility and Dysmotility in Nutrition Support.- Enteral Versus Parenteral Feeding in Critical Illness.- The Value of Organized Nutritional Support Service in Intensive Care Unit Care.- Obtaining and Maintaining Access for Nutrition Support.- Formulation of Parenteral and Enteral Admixtures.- Drug-Nutrient Interactions in the Critically Ill.- A Practical Approach to Feeding Intensive Care Patients.- Nutritional Assessment of Intensive Care Unit Patients.- Monitoring Nutritional Support in the Intensive Care Unit.- Nutritional Effects on Respiratory and Muscle Dysfunction in Intensive Care Unit Patients.- Perioperative Nutrition.- Perioperative Nutrition in Elective Surgery.- Nutrition Support in Blunt and Penetrating Torso Trauma.- Nutritional Support in Neurologic Injury.- Nutritional Support of the Severely Burned Patient.- Liver Function: Alteration and Insufficiency.- Nutritional Support in Acute Respiratory Failure.- Nutrition Support in Pancreatitis.- Nutrition Support of Critically Ill Obese Patients.- Hyperglycemia and Blood Sugar Management: Implications for Infection.- Nutrition Support of the Septic Patient.- Nutrition Support Guidelines for Therapeutically Immunosuppressed Patients.- Enteral Immunonutrition in the Intensive Care Unit: A Critical Approach.- Effects of Route and Dose of Immunonutrition Compounds.- Stress-Related Catabolism: Countermeasures.- New Nitrogen-Containing Substrates in Artificial Nutrition.- Merging Evidence-based Medicine and Nutrition Support Practice for Critically Ill Patients: The (Mis)interpretation of Randomized Trials and Meta-Analyses.