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Metabolic Changes and Nutrition Therapy in Burn Patients

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The metabolism pattern changes obviously after severe burn injury, the primary pathological phenomena are energy consumption and catabolism increased significantly, and nutrients utilize barriers. Severe burned patients will lead to autophagy metabolism, continuous consumption, and progressive emaciation. If the pathological process can not effectively block, it will lead to organ damage, immune dysfunction, wound healing delay and other adverse outcomes. Therefore, hypermetabolism after burn is one of the leading cause of multiple organ dysfunction and even death. After many years research, although there is certain understanding of hypermetabolism mechanism, but it is difficult to fully explain the causes of the hypermetabolism after burn, up to now. At the same time, the therapeutic measures of regulating hypermetabolism are still not perfect, and obstacle to burn comprehensive treatment level continuous progress.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns and Combined Injury, Research Institute of Burn Injury, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

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  1. Key Laboratory of Wound Repair and Regenerative Medicine of PLA, The first Affiliated Hospital of PLA General Hospital, Beijing, Beijing, China

    Xiaobing Fu

  2. Key Laboratory of Wound Repair and Regenerative Medicine of PLA, Daping Hospital, Chongqing, Chong Qing, China

    Liangming Liu

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Peng, X. (2017). Metabolic Changes and Nutrition Therapy in Burn Patients. In: Fu, X., Liu, L. (eds) Advanced Trauma and Surgery. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2425-2_11

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