Neonatal Nutrition and Metabolism [Paperback]

First published in 2006, this is an account of the basic science, metabolism, nutritional requirements and clinical management of the neonate.Neonatal nutrition has a pivotal role in normal child development and is of even greater importance in the sick or premature neonate. This greatly updated new edition includes a comprehensive account of the basic science, metabolism and nutritional requirements of the neonate, and a greatly expanded number of chapters dealing in depth with clinical issues ranging from IUGR, intravenous feeding, nutritional therapies for inborn errors of metabolism, and care of the neonatal surgical patient. Written by an authoritative, international team of contributors, this will be the definitive source of reference.Neonatal nutrition has a pivotal role in normal child development and is of even greater importance in the sick or premature neonate. This greatly updated new edition includes a comprehensive account of the basic science, metabolism and nutritional requirements of the neonate, and a greatly expanded number of chapters dealing in depth with clinical issues ranging from IUGR, intravenous feeding, nutritional therapies for inborn errors of metabolism, and care of the neonatal surgical patient. Written by an authoritative, international team of contributors, this will be the definitive source of reference.Neonatal nutrition has a pivotal role in normal child development and is of even greater importance in the sick or premature neonate. This substantially revised and updated new edition includes a comprehensive account of the basic science, metabolism and nutritional requirements of the neonate, and a greatly expanded number of chapters dealing in depth with clinical issues ranging from IUGR, intravenous feeding, nutritional therapies for inborn errors of metabolism and care of the neonatal surgical patient. Evolving from these scientific and clinical aspects, the volume highlights the important long-term effects of fetal and neonatalc