Metabolism and Artificial Nutrition in the Critically Ill

by F. Iscra

The critically ill patient in intensive care may present with serious metabolic alterations caused directly by the illness or secondarily by complications (e.g. infections, organ failure or sepsis) developing within a few hours of hospitaliza- tion or in the following days. Among the situations which maintain and further trigger rapidly evolving altered metabolism are complex hormonal reactions, particularly those of the hypothalamus-hypophysis-adrenal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8847000424
• ISBN13: 9788847000421
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"