Problems of protein nutrition in burned patients
Problems of protein nutrition in burned patients
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DOI:
10.1097/00000658-194308000-00005
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发表时间:
1943-07-01
影响因子:
9
通讯作者:
Lund, CC
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作者:
Taylor, FHL;Levenson, SM;Lund, CC
ALTHOUGH THE TREATMENT of the burned patient is usually regarded as a surgical problem, nunmerous underlying physiologic, metabolic and clinical complications must be constantly borne in mind. Frequently, the success or failure of carefully planned and well executed surgical procedures, such as skin grafting, depends upon the early recognition and effective handling of these underlying disturbances. Infection,'shock, immediate or late, 2 anemia, 3 and disturbances of kidney or liver function4 may occur as complications of burns. All these factors tend to delay healing. The presence of any, or all, of these factors may also have a profound effect on the metabolism of the patient. An opportunity has been afforded to study some of the abnormalities of metabolism in a large series of burned patients. The details of the earliest 6f these investigations are given elsewhere. 5 The present communication deals with only one aspect of this very large problem, namely, the problem of protein metabolism in the burned patient.Hypoproteinemia occurred frequently in a series of 63 patients upon whom a sufficient number of laboratory observations were made. In some patients, hypoproteinemia was fugitive, and was probably associated with early loss of plasma. In others, it persisted for some time, but was not severe and responded to high protein diets containing from ioo to I25 Gm. of protein per day. These diets were supplemented with 25 to 30 Gm of brewers yeastt and other added'vitamin supplements, A and contained approximately 3000 calories. Other patients did not respond to, or could not ingest, sucl diets. This group was composed of the most severely burned of all the patients studied, and in them the hypoproteinemia became progressive, and often reached the anasarca level. Simple loss of plasma in the form of persistent surface exudate could not alone account for the hypoproteinemia* Presented before the American Surgical Association, Cincinnati, Ohio, May