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Nutrition support strategies for severely burned patients.

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It is demonstrated that early institution of enteral feeding can attenuate the stress response, abate hypermetabolism, and improve patient outcome in the burn patient.
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Significant weight loss is a common complication of a major burn injury. Before the modern era of early enteral nutrition support, such a complication contributed significantly to impaired wound healing, raised risk of infectious morbidity, and ultimately increased mortality. Nutrition management of the burn patient is designed to promote wound healing while minimizing loss of lean body mass. The burn patient characteristically demonstrates an increase in energy expenditure after the initial injury and period of resuscitation. Studies have demonstrated that early institution of enteral feeding can attenuate the stress response, abate hypermetabolism, and improve patient outcome.

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Intensive Insulin Therapy in Critically Ill Patients

TL;DR: Intensive insulin therapy to maintain blood glucose at or below 110 mg per deciliter reduces morbidity and mortality among critically ill patients in the surgical intensive care unit.
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Canadian clinical practice guidelines for nutrition support in mechanically ventilated, critically ill adult patients

TL;DR: Significant potential benefit from implementing evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for nutrition support in critically ill adults is improved clinical outcomes of critically ill patients (reduced mortality and ICU stay) and potential harms of implementing these guidelines include increased complications and costs related to the suggested interventions.
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Catecholamines: mediator of the hypermetabolic response to thermal injury.

TL;DR: Feeding burn patients or administering glucose and insulin improved nitrogen retention and altered substrate flow but did not significantly reduce urinary catecholamines or metabolic rate, which would explain the metabolic response to thermal injury.
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