• Missouri medicine · Sep 2012

    Immune-enhancing nutrition in surgical critical care.

    • Graham R Y Pollock and Charles W Van Way.
    • Department of Surgery at University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Medicine, USA. pollockg@umkc.edu
    • Mo Med. 2012 Sep 1;109(5):388-92.

    AbstractImmune-enhancing nutrition, or "immunonutrition," refers to the use of specialized nutrients, including glutamine, alanine, omega-3 fatty acids, and others, that help regulate the body's response to illness and injury. Clinical studies have demonstrated some very specific benefits, including fewer infectious complications and shorter length of hospitalization, in certain populations including high-risk surgical patients, trauma victims, and the critically-ill. Nationally recognized guidelines support the use of immune-enhancing nutrition in high-risk patients.

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