Intestinal Failure

This is the second and fully updated edition of the successful volume on intestinal failure in adults and children. The book provides a comprehensive coverage of all aspects of intestinal failure: from acute and chronic intestinal failure management and treatment, to outcomes, consequences and problems of treatment. In addition, 20 new chapters have been added, covering acute and chronic pancreatitis, critical care and abdominal pain among other topics.

Each of the chapters contains a section with top tips on the topic, summarizing the essential take-home messages. Highly educational, this book is a must have for gastroenterologists but is of use for all members of a hospital nutrition support team including nurses, dietitians and pharmacists, whom it will serve as a practical guide for management of intestinal failure both in the hospital and in an outpatient setting.

Written by a multidisciplinary author team, this book brings this important subject to a wide readership. With extensive referencing the book provides a detailed overview of the topic, discussing the latest research in the subject and how this relates to current clinical practice and potential future treatments.

He trained in Gastroenterology under the guidance of Drs P Willoughby, WR Burnham, JF Mayberry, AC Wicks and BJ Rathbone. His nutritional training/research was with mainly with Professor JE Lennard-Jones though he also worked closely with Professors MA Kamm and MJG Farthing at St Mark’s Hospital.  He was awarded the Sir David Cuthbertson Medal by the Nutrition Society in 1993 for his work on the problems of a short bowel. He worked as a Consultant Gastroenterologist first at Leicester Royal Infirmary (1996-2006) where he set up a nutrition support team then at St Mark’s Hospital (2006 – 2017) where he worked within a national intestinal failure unit. He was the British Society of Gastroenterology representative on the NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) committee for “Nutritional Support in Adults: oral supplements, enteral and parenteral feeding”.  In 2006 he was the first author on the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) guidelines onthe management of patients with a short bowel. In 2020 he was first author on the BSG guidelines on “The management of adult patients with severe chronic small intestinal dysmotility”.   He has been involved with writing the undergraduate and postgraduate curricula for nutritional training. He has been the chairman of the British Intestinal Failure Alliance (BIFA) since 2014. He is the chairman of the independent charity “The Nightingale Trust for Nutritional Support (1109586)”. He is President of the Coloproctology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine for 2022-3.  He currently works part time in Intestinal failure at the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. In 2020 he was awarded the John Lennard-Jones Medal by BAPEN for “outstanding work in Clinical Nutrition”. He keeps llamas and is a keen tennis/croquet player.