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Support of the Metabolic Response to Burn Injury by David N Herndon; Ronald G Tompkins is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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## TRAUMA II Over the past two decades, the greatest advancement in the treatment of patients with major thermal injuries has come from the surgical management of these injuries by promptly excising the damaged soft tissues and immediately closing the wound with autologous skin, if available, or with allogeneic or artificial skin. This surgical approach has favourably affected morbidity and mortality and attenuated many of the complications of these injuries. However, despite this major advance, patients are subject to many, very serious persistent threats, which include hypermetabolism and catabolism, and these risks need further investigation and innovation. ## Hypermetabolic response to thermal injury In adults with a thermal injury of 25% total body surface area, the metabolic rate ranges between 118% and 210% of that predicted by Harris-Benedict equations. 1 In patients with burn injuries greater than 40% total body surface area, the resting metabolic rate at thermal neutral temperature (33oC) reaches 180% of the basal rate during acute admission, 150% at full healing of the burn wound, 140% 6 months after the injury, 120% at 9 months post injury, and 110% after 12 months. 2 I
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- Author
- David N Herndon; Ronald G Tompkins
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences