Journal article
Nutrition and Anabolic Pharmacotherapies in the Care of Burn Patients
Abstract
Thermal injury is a devastating injury that results in a number of pathological alterations in almost every system in the body. Hypermetabolism, muscle wasting, depressed immunity, and impaired wound healing are all clinical features of burns. Failure to address each of these specific pathological alterations can lead to increased mortality. Nutrition supplementation has been recommended as a therapeutic tool to help attenuate the …
Authors
Abdullahi A; Jeschke MG
Journal
Nutrition in Clinical Practice, Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 621–630
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
October 2014
DOI
10.1177/0884533614533129
ISSN
0884-5336