Nutrition of the Burned Patient and Treatment of the Hypermetabolic Response

It is well documented that burn patients undergo a unique response after burn, characterized by its complexity and intricacy, termed the hypermetabolic response. We learned over the past decades that this hypermetabolic response is not a singular path. It involves all kinds of aspects and major alterations that ultimately all lead to one outcome, catabolism, and degradation of vital and essential building blocks. Interestingly, a certain degree …