Nutrition and Bariatric Surgery

Features:

• Discusses preoperative nutritional requirements and deficiencies surrounding bariatric surgery
• Presents preoperative diets, including LCD, VLCD and commercial supplements
• Contains nutritional recommendations after restrictive, mixed and malabsorptive procedures

Table Of Contents:

1. Preoperative nutritional deficiencies

2. Nutritional evaluation and calculation of nutritional requirements in the preoperative course

3. Preoperative diets: LCD, VLCD and commercial supplements

4. Impact of preoperative nutritional intervention on comorbidities: Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia and NAFLD

5. Fluid therapy during bariatric surgery

6. Bariatric surgery options

7. Postoperative complications. Indications and access routes for enteral and parenteral nutrition

8. Nutritional treatment in the critically-ill complicated patient

9. Nutritional recommendations after restrictive procedures

10. Nutritional recommendations after mixed procedures

11. Nutritional recommendations after malabsorptive procedures

12. Postoperative vitamin and mineral supplementation

13. Special nutritional requirements in children and adolescents undergoing bariatric surgery

14. Special nutritional requirements in the elderly patient undergoing bariatric surgery

15. Special nutritional requirements in specific situations in women: Pregnanacy, lactancy and post-menopauseal status

16. Follow-up and screening of postoperative nutritional deficiencies

17. Postoperative management of specific complications: Anemia, protein malnutrition and neurological disorders

18. Cookbook for bariatric patients