Nutrition in the Surgical Patient

Surgical illness, trauma and sepsis throw the body into a catabolic, hypermetabolic state where adequate nutrition is not a luxury but a determinant of wound healing, immune competence and survival. This chapter covers nutritional assessment, the enteral-versus-parenteral decision, indications and complications of TPN, refeeding syndrome, immunonutrition and ERAS — all recurrent themes in postoperative and critical-c…