Surgery represents a major stressor that disrupts homeostasis and can lead to loss of body
cell mass. Integrated, multidisciplinary medical strategies, including enhanced recovery …

The metabolic changes occurring after injury and in sepsis are still, more than 60 years after
their relatively complete description, a cause of significant morbidity and mortality. Although …

It has become increasingly clear that life‐history patterns among the vertebrates have been
shaped by the plethora and variety of immunological risks associated with parasitic faunas …

The metabolic response to injury and illness as manifested by increases in energy
expenditure and nitrogen losses makes it difficult for the clinician to evaluate calorie and …

Three, single-day nutritional surveys at weekly intervals were conducted in the general
medical wards of an urban municipal teaching hospital. The techniques of nutritional …

Practice guidelines for physicians who treat children with brain trauma are long overdue. A
significant barrier to producing guidelines has been the lack of data from well-designed …

This study was performed to investigate the mechanism whereby immediate enteral feeding
after burn injury reduces postburn hypermetabolism and hypercatabolism. Fifty-seven …

Sepsis is a major catabolic insult resulting in modifications in carbohydrate and fat energy
metabolism, and leading to increased muscle breakdown and nitrogen loss. Insulin …

Sepsis is a major catabolic insult resulting in a peripheral energy deficit which is made up in
part by increased breakdown of lean body mass and oxidation of amino acids, principally …

✓ Caloric expenditure and nitrogen balance were measured in 14 steroid-treated comatose
head-injured patients acutely and up to 28 days after injury. During this period patients were …