Critical Care Nutrition Therapy for Non-nutritionists

General  ICU patient.- Nutrition during prolonged hemodynamic instability.- ECMO patients.- Intestinal failure.- Brain injury and nutrition.- Burns (major).- Obesity.- Acute Kidney Injury with and without renal replacement therapy.- Patient on non-invasive ventilation.- The very old patients.- Inborn Errors of Metabolism in Adults: Clues for nutritional management in ICU.- Nutrition and Metabolic Support in Chronic Critical Illness.- Practical aspects of nutrition.

Mette M. Berger is a Consultant Intensivist, Adult Intensive Care Service & Burns at Centre University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV). She is head of the ICU's clinical nutrition program, and the hospital's burns center. Prof. Berger was also responsible for the creation of the Clinical Nutrition Unit in a large non university hospital in Sion (Hôpital du Valais) in 2014. Her research interests include clinical nutrition and micronutrient requirements in the critically ill, with a special focus on major burns. Prof. Berger's clinical and research contributions include the concept of assessing needs and preventing excessive energy debt in acute conditions, promoting the monitoring of nutritional therapy and the use of combined enteral and parenteral feeding. To date, she has authored over 200 publications and more than 30 book chapters. She is also an internationally renowned speaker on the topics of micronutrition, clinical nutrition and burn care. Prof. Berger is an active Member of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition & Metabolism (ESPEN) working in the Intensive Care Unit (ESPEN-ICU) guidelines group and LLL teaching sessions, and a Member of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM MEN section). She is associate editor for Clinical Nutrition.

"This is a multiauthored handbook for bedside providers seeking to optimize nutrition support for patients in the intensive care unit. ... This is an excellent combination of pertinent physiology and "how-to" advice for bedside care. As the literature describing metabolic response to critical illness continues to evolve, use of the most current references by these authors is both essential and commendable." (David J. Dries, Doody's Book Reviews, May, 2018)