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- Title
The Evolving Rationale for Early Enteral Nutrition Based on Paradigms of Multiple Organ Failure: A Personal Journey.
- Authors
Moore, Frederick A.; Moore, Ernest E.
- Abstract
The article proposes a paradigm to explain how stress-induced hypermetabolism causes acute protein malnutrition, which causes immunosuppression and secondary infections that provoke multiple organ failure (MOF). The authors hypothesize that aggressive nutrition intervention in high-risk patients could reverse these events. Early enteral nutrition (EEN) can decrease nosocomial infections in critically injured patients, based on a series of three prospective, randomized clinical trial (PRCT) testing EEN in patients with major torso trauma.
- Subjects
DIETARY proteins; MALNUTRITION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MULTIPLE organ failure; ENTERAL feeding; NOSOCOMIAL infections; TRAUMATISM
- Publication
Nutrition in Clinical Practice, 2009, Vol 24, Issue 3, p297
- ISSN
0884-5336
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0884533609336604