عنوان

Metabolic Support of the Critically Ill Patient

3642850111

9783642850110

b546073

Metabolic Support of the Critically Ill Patient

[Book]

edited by Douglas W. Wilmore, Yvon A. Carpentier.

Berlin, Heidelberg

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

1993

(xiv, 441 pages 89 illustrations)

Update in intensive care and emergency medicine, 17.

Monitoring Compositional Changes and Biochemical Functions --;Measuring Body Composition in Intensive Care Patients --;Applications of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy to Nutrition and Metabolism --;Muscle Function and Energetics --;Muscle Intracellular Ions during Malnutrition and Refeeding --;Estimation of Peroxidative Damage --;What Type of Metabolic Support? --;Does Indirect Calorimetry Reflect Energy Expenditure in the Critical Ill Patient? --;Are We Giving Unbalanced Amino Acid Solutions? --;Anabolic Drive in Critically Ill Patients: Pros and Cons a Prevailing Glucose System --;Are Present Fat Emulsions Appropriate? --;Organ Specific Nutrients and Associated Therapy --;Effects of Enteral Nutrients on the Critically Ill Gut --;Nutrition of some Cells of the Immune System and its Importance in the Response to Trauma --;The Impact of Nutrition on Muscle Tissue in Critical Illness --;Enhancing Wound Healing in Severely Burned Patients --;Organ Specific Nutrients and Associated Therapy: Growth Factors --;Growth Hormone --;Preventing Complications --;Parenteral versus Enteral Nutrition --;The Importance of the Gut as a Central Organ in the Pathogenesis of MOF --;Altering Bowel Contents with Lactulose and other Substances prevents Endotoxemia --;Metabolic Support: Modulation of Purine Metabolism --;Metabolic Responses to Anti-Cytokine Therapies --;The Maintenance of Antioxidant Defenses during Inflammation --;Disease/Nutrients Interactions --;Acute Renal Failure in the ICU: Approaches to Nutritional Support --;Nutritional Support in Liver Disease --;Nutrition and Metabolism in Acute Respiratory Failure --;Nutritional Complications associated with Chemotherapy and Irradiation in Cancer Treatment --;Nutrition in Sepsis.

Nutritional support of critically ill patients is a major treatment modality which will enhance recovery and shorten convalescence. This new knowledge has evolved to a new area of metabolic support which is addressed for the first time by a group of international experts.

Critical care medicine.

Emergency medicine.

Medicine.

edited by Douglas W. Wilmore, Yvon A. Carpentier.

Douglas W Wilmore

Y A Carpentier

[Book]

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