This book delineates the concepts of surgical nutrition. It concentrates on nutritional needs in specific disease states of both adult and pediatric surgical patients, describes general principles of surgical nutrition, provides an assessment of the rationale for placing importance on surgical nutrition as a separate discipline and demonstrates protocol for evaluation and treatment of surgical patients with specific nutritional needs. Chapters contain information on nutritional assessment, macro and micronutrient requirements, various nutritional therapies and nutrition in specific surgical disease states.