Nutrition: reducing the hypermetabolic response to thermal injury.

Nutritional support is seen as a vital component in the battle to attenuate the extreme hypermetabolic response experienced by patients suffering from large thermal injuries. Protein catabolism precipitating protein malnutrition places patients at greater risk of wound infection and sepsis due to de...

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Published in:British Journal of Nursing Vol. 27; no. 12; pp. 661 - 671
Main Author: Price, Christina
Format: pictorial tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Mark Allen Holdings Limited 7/1/2018
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