Nutrition Support for the Burn Patient
2020
Nutritional support remains an important aspect in the care of critically ill patients, especially those with severe burns. The unique hypermetabolic state occurring after a severe burn can cause metabolic rates to double and is accompanied by severe catabolism. The hypermetabolic state persists for more than a year after severe injury, and if nutritional support does not meet the increased energy expenditures, patients experience significant loss of lean muscle mass, impaired wound healing and immune dysfunction [1, 2]. The goal of nutritional support in the burn patient is to ameliorate and optimize the deranged metabolism and avoid nutritional complications.
Keywords:
- Correction
- Source
- Cite
- Save
- Machine Reading By IdeaReader
80
References
0
Citations
NaN
KQI