The relationship between tissue loss and function: recent developments

Vernon, David R.; Hill, Graham L.

doi:10.1097/00075197-199801000-00002

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“…Studley8 first reported a connection between nutritional risk and survival in surgical patients in 1936. Malnutrition is associated with loss of muscle strength and delayed wound healing9, 10, immune system dysfunction, leading to impaired complement activation and production, and bacterial opsonization, leading to dysfunction of neutrophils, macrophages and lymphocytes11, 12. Therefore, nutritional risk may lead to an increase in postoperative complications, prolonged hospital stay and higher costs3, 13.…”

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Nutritional risk is a clinical predictor of postoperative mortality and morbidity in surgery for colorectal cancer

Schwegler

Holzen

Gutzwiller

et al. 2010

Journal of British Surgery

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Nutritional risk is a clinical predictor of postoperative mortality and morbidity in surgery for colorectal cancer

Schwegler

Holzen

Gutzwiller

et al. 2010

Journal of British Surgery

327

230

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“…The inter-relationships between tissue loss and physiological function are complex and depend on the setting within which malnutrition arises [ 8 ]. There are few published data regarding long-term nutritional follow-up of general ICU patients.…”

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Broomhead

Brett

2002

Crit Care

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The majority of intensive care practitioners, until comparatively recently, was content to discharge surviving patients to the care of referring primary specialty colleagues who would undertake subsequent inpatient and outpatient care. With the exception of mortality statistics from clinical studies, the practitioners were thus denied the opportunity of understanding the full impact of critical illness on a patient and their family. The concept of the intensive care follow-up clinic has developed more recently, and is run commonly on multidisciplinary lines. These clinics serve a number of purposes, but importantly have drawn attention to broader patient-centred outcomes after intensive care. Investigators are just beginning to identify, and in some cases quantify, the postdischarge burden on patient and family; additional useful data have also come from follow-up of specific disease states. The purpose of the present review is to highlight some of the important issues that impact on recovery from critical illness towards an acceptable quality of postdischarge life. We have concentrated on the adult literature, and specifically on studies that inform us about the more general effects of critical illness. Head and spinal injury are thus largely ignored, as the effects of the primary injury overwhelm the effects of 'general' critical illness.

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Perioperative Nutrition in Elective Surgery

Allison

2002

From Nutrition Support to Pharmacologic Nutrition in the ICU

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The relationship between tissue loss and function: recent developments

Abstract: Recent workers in this field have confirmed the complex interrelationship between structure and function. It is clear that the manner in which physiological impairment develops relative to compositional change depends on the setting within which malnutrition arises.

Cited by 10 publications

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Nutritional risk is a clinical predictor of postoperative mortality and morbidity in surgery for colorectal cancer

Nutritional risk is a clinical predictor of postoperative mortality and morbidity in surgery for colorectal cancer

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Perioperative Nutrition in Elective Surgery

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