Ada Pocket Guide To Bariatric Surgery

This user-friendly pocket guide provides evidence-based data on the pre and post-operative nutrition care issues surrounding this increasingly popular weight management tool. Topics include: * Weight loss surgery overview. * The Nutrition Care Process. * Co-morbidity issues. * Long-term care post surgery. * Sample PES statements throughout.

Experts in metabolic and bariatric surgery have updated this easy-to-use pocket guide to reflect the latest research, guidelines, and tools for practitioners working in any setting with patients undergoing metabolic and bariatric surgery.

This on-the-go reference blends the most current recommendations as well as evidence-based guidelines for working with children and adolescents with overweight and obesity issues. Most recent recommendations from pediatric experts regarding screenings, assessment and treatment for overweight youths. Update on most current overweight prevention strategies and resources available. Handy appendixes with charts, tables and forms make for quick, easy reference.

"This fully updated third edition serves as a snapshot of the most current literature to support the nutrition care of patients before and after undergoing metabolic and bariatric surgery. Evidence-based practices are featured throughout, along with the latest recommendations for working with complex patients, including kidney disease, diabetes, pregnancy, and nutritional deficiencies. Both the RDN new to bariatric surgery practice and the experienced practitioner will find this to be an indispensable reference. Highlights of updates for this new edition include: Descriptions of single anastomosis procedures, and inclusion of the biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch Reviews of more liberal diet progression options and nutrition-related enhanced recovery interventions Expanded coverage of metabolic and bariatric surgery in adolescents A full chapter devoted to endoscopic weight loss therapies: balloons, aspiration therapies, and revisional procedures performed endoscopically Easy-to-interpret tables of vitamin and mineral supplementation and biochemical surveillance A new appendix covering nutrition counseling and education tools"--

Portable and concise, the Dietitian's Pocket Guide to Nutrition serves as an easy reference for dieticians and other health care professionals who quickly need to access the recommended nutrition care for various medical conditions and problems. Serving as a key healthcare, the dietitian will be able to answer patients' questions concerning their specific nutritional needs and make informed decisions about foods a patient may or may not consume. The Dietitian's Pocket Guide to Nutrition allows easy access to essential nutrition information that is critical to patient care.

This best-selling clinical guide now includes new chapters on meal replacements, the glycemic index and the DASH Diet, plus cultural sensitivity and weight management issues in pregnancy and menopause. This publication is a must-have for professionals working with overweight adults.