Download or read book Manual of Surgical Nutrition written by American College of Surgeons. Committee on Pre and Postoperative Care and published by W.B. Saunders Company. This book was released on 1975 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Surgeons should be aware of and concerned about the importance of clinical nutrition to their field. Evidence now available indicates that traditional surgical considerations--the healing of wounds and infection--may be materially altered by both pre- and post-operative nutritional care. A number of new methods, as well as new principles, in surgical nutrition have been developed in the surgical nutrition field in recent years; this trend is expanding rapidly. A brief history of clinical nutrition and essays on the fundamentals of nutrition, energy sources and utilization, and many aspects of the body's response to starvation and stress are provided.