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Critical care clinics · Jul 1996
ReviewNutrition support is not beneficial and can be harmful in critically ill patients.
- P L Marino and M J Finnegan.
- University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA.
- Crit Care Clin. 1996 Jul 1; 12 (3): 667-76.
AbstractThe introductory remark by Lucretius serves as a reminder that nutrient intake can have very different consequences in different subjects. In the patient with an acute or serious illness, metabolic derangements can transform a substance that is normally a source of energy into a source of metabolic toxins. The potential for organic nutrients to become organic toxins in the diseased host is a phenomenon that deserves more attention in the debate about the value of nutrition support in critically ill patients.
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