Publisher's Synopsis
The second edition NFPE Pocket Guide provides the clinician with tools for malnutrition assessment, documentation, and coding. It includes the adult malnutrition characteristics chart, a physical exam table describing muscle and fat wasting, micronutrient deficiencies and toxicities, edema charts and much more. This updated edition now includes images depicting degrees of wasting, from well-nourished to severe for the muscle and fat regions critical to NFPE, as well as the stages of edema — more than 45 images in all. Pages are laminated for frequent use.
