Nutrition Support for the Critically Ill Patient
Subtitle: A Guide to Practice
Publisher: CRC
Published: February 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 712
ISBN-13: 9780849321535
Subjects: Intensive care medicine; Medical / Nursing; Diet therapy; Health & Fitness; Health/Fitness; Nutrition; Critical Care; Health & Fitness / Nutrition; Critically ill; Critical Illness; therapy
First sentence: The metabolic response to stress was first described in 1942, by Sir David Cuthbertson, who introduced the terms ebb and flow to describe the phases of hypo- and hypermetabolism that follow traumatic injury.