Metabolic Support of the Critically Ill Patient

Monitoring Compositional Changes and Biochemical Functions.- Measuring Body Composition in Intensive Care Patients.- Applications of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy to Nutrition and Metabolism.- Muscle Function and Energetics.- Muscle Intracellular Ions during Malnutrition and Refeeding.- Estimation of Peroxidative Damage.- What Type of Metabolic Support?.- Does Indirect Calorimetry Reflect Energy Expenditure in the Critical Ill Patient?.- Are We Giving Unbalanced Amino Acid Solutions?.- Anabolic Drive in Critically Ill Patients: Pros and Cons a Prevailing Glucose System.- Are Present Fat Emulsions Appropriate?.- Organ Specific Nutrients and Associated Therapy.- Effects of Enteral Nutrients on the Critically Ill Gut.- Nutrition of some Cells of the Immune System and its Importance in the Response to Trauma.- The Impact of Nutrition on Muscle Tissue in Critical Illness.- Enhancing Wound Healing in Severely Burned Patients.- Organ Specific Nutrients and Associated Therapy: Growth Factors - Growth Hormone.- Preventing Complications.- Parenteral versus Enteral Nutrition.- The Importance of the Gut as a Central Organ in the Pathogenesis of MOF.- Altering Bowel Contents with Lactulose and other Substances prevents Endotoxemia.- Metabolic Support: Modulation of Purine Metabolism.- Metabolic Responses to Anti-Cytokine Therapies.- The Maintenance of Antioxidant Defenses during Inflammation.- Disease/Nutrients Interactions.- Acute Renal Failure in the ICU: Approaches to Nutritional Support.- Nutritional Support in Liver Disease.- Nutrition and Metabolism in Acute Respiratory Failure.- Nutritional Complications associated with Chemotherapy and Irradiation in Cancer Treatment.- Nutrition in Sepsis.