Clinical nutrition

The monograph Clinical Nutrition is a comprehensive text that deals with nutrition in all its aspects. It is primarily intended for physicians with certification in the basic field with an interest in clinical nutrition, but it can also serve as a teaching text for certification in clinical nutrition and intensive metabolic care guaranteed by the Committee of the Society of Clinical Nutrition and Intensive Metabolic Care. The author team consists of a total of 74 authors, including 58 doctors, nine nutritional therapists, three pharmacists, a nurse, and two university experts. The text is divided into a general and a special part.

In the first, the general part deals with the history of clinical nutrition, individual macro- and micronutrients and their metabolism, nutritional status assessment procedures, including malnutrition screening and subsequent nutritional support steps, legislation, principles of proper nutrition and alternative directions, nutrition in sports, diet system. Other chapters deal with enteral and parenteral nutrition, their complications, methods of introducing inputs for their application and home nutritional support, as well as ethical aspects of nutritional care and the organization of nutritional support, including the powers of individual professions. A separate chapter deals with nutrition at different stages of life.

In the second, special part, aspects of clinical nutrition in diseases of individual systems of the human body are discussed in detail. This is a disease of the oral cavity, dysphagia, lung and respiratory diseases, nutrition in gastroenterology and hepatology, in patients with kidney failure, with diabetes mellitus or fat metabolism disorders, in obese patients, patients with osteoporosis and neurological patients. Chapters on hereditary metabolic diseases, food allergies, eating disorders, and other psychiatric diagnoses have their place. An extensive chapter is devoted to nutrition in oncology patients, followed by chapters on nutrition in surgery, in transplantology, and in critically ill patients in intensive care units. The monograph concludes with chapters on the nutrition of patients in extreme conditions and those with COVID-19.