ELECTROLYTE PATTERNS IN GASTRO-INTESTINAL SECRETIONS*

Nutrition in Gastro-intestinal Disease

• To understand the nature and pathophysiology of the different types of intestinal failure and short bowel syndrome; • To appreciate the need for restriction of salt-poor fluids in patients with short bowel syndrome; • To have an understanding of the pharmacological and nutritional therapy of short bowel syndrome; • To be able to apply this understanding in clinical practice; • To know the pro...

Gastro-intestinal Obstruction

M.D. (Pp. xii + 566; figs. 415. 144s.) London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, 1958. THIS work covers every conceivable aspect of obstruction in the gastro-intestinal tract from the cesophagus to the anal canal in a truly encycloprdic manner. The book contains a tremendous amount of information and approximately 1,700 references in the bibliography. It is refreshing here to note that the authors incl...

Rabbit Gastro-intestinal Disease

Gastro-intestinal suction.

During recent years the many indications from reports in the surgical literature, and the reduction of the mortality from abdominal injuries of warfare, have indicated that gastro-intestinal suction can play a major role in reducing the mortality rate in a great number of surgical conditions. It is felt that although its value is well known to the majority of surgeons, there are many problems w...

Gastro-Intestinal Syphilis.