Artificial nutrition includes: enteral nutrition, and parenteral nutrition. Total parenteral nutrition aims at making up for nutritional deficiency caused by both insufficient oral nutrition due to anorexia and obstruction of the gastro-enteric tube or derived from a digestive inefficacy due to a deficiency in the digestive process of assimilation. Enteral nutrition is destined to elderly patie...

As the world’s population is living longer, there are increasingly more elderly patients requiring surgical intervention. Today, we do more surgeries for the elderly than we used to. The elderly patients receiving surgical treatment are more complex because of their diminished physiological reserve, background co morbidities, cognitive impairment and they are at higher risk of developing postop...

As the world’s population is living longer, there are increasingly more elderly patients requiring surgical intervention. Today, we do more surgeries for the elderly than we used to. The elderly patients receiving surgical treatment are more complex because of their diminished physiological reserve, background co morbidities, cognitive impairment and they are at higher risk of developing postop...

Background: Malnutrition in hospitalized elderly patients is common and often unrecognized. Undernourished elderly tend to have longer periods of illness, longer hospital stay, higher rate of infections, delayed wound healing, reduced appetite and increased mortality rates. Nutrition screening is the first step in identifying individuals at nutritional risk and with malnutrition. ‘Mini Nutritio...

If one were asked to list those topics usually covered inadequately in medical school and in clinical residencies, "nutrition" and "geriatrics" would certainly be ranked high. It is significant, therefore, to have available one book which may help to remedy two of these deficiencies. The author, a Ph.D., is director of nutritional research at a rehabilitation center and a geriatric nutrition la...

background: nutrition is an important determinant of health in elderly and nutritional assessment is necessary for development of treatment protocols. the study aimed to evaluate nutritional status using multidimensional assessment in elderly. methods: one hundred fourteen subjects (76 men and 64 women) from elderly residence house in kermanshah, western iran were studied. data was collected us...

Ladd's analysis does much to clarify a field where fundamental assumptions have too often gone unexamined. Lisa Newton's "Hippocrates Lost, A Professional Ethic Regained" examines the morality underlying the Hippocratic Oath and explores its relevance to modern medicine. It is Newton's thesis that vestiges of the Hippocratic tradition, which enjoined physicians to practice their art in secrecy,...