Trauma and Nutrition
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Explain how major surgeries and traumatic events (major injuries, burns, and wounds) can impact the nutrition status of a patient. What are the nutrition related goals during the recovery stage? What surgery or condition that would warrant the use of TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition).
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The solution provides an explanation on how surgeries and traumatic events can impact the nutrition status of a patient, states the nutrition related goals during the recovery stage and the nutritional needs and TPN associated with acute trauma and burn patients. References are included.
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Surgical trauma and burn trauma are major events that trigger several responses by the body. Nutritional status is affected mainly in the acute phase of the trauma. Amino acid metabolism and distribution are altered, leading to potential protein loss through both increased metabolism and intercellular fluid in the case of burns. The pro inflammatory state that a body is in after suffering trauma contributes to catabolism, that is the body breaking down its own ...
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