EARLY NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT IN CRITICAL ILLNESS IS IMPORTANT

Authors
SAX HC
Citation
Hc. Sax, EARLY NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT IN CRITICAL ILLNESS IS IMPORTANT, Critical care clinics, 12(3), 1996, pp. 661
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
Journal title
Critical care clinics → ACNP
ISSN journal
07490704
Volume
12
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Database
ISI
SICI code
0749-0704(1996)12:3<661:ENSICI>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
The hypermetabolic state in critically ill patients is characterized b y wasting of lean body mass and immunosuppression. The gut is among th e most metabolically active organs. Failure to maintain gut function b y way of early enteral nutrition can lead to increased infectious comp lications. Early enteral nutrition improves outcome and may maintain m uscle mass by blunting the cytokine-mediated hypermetabolic response.