TY - JOUR
T1 - Metabolic assessment
AU - Jacobs, D. O.
AU - Wong, M.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Although no techniques are currently available that meet the needs of nutrition-support professionals, the future is promising. This article reviews various methods and techniques used to assess the metabolic and nutritional status of surgical patients. Technologic advances in bioengineering, molecular biology, and physiology are providing exciting new tools that may eventually replace or supplement traditional static indices of metabolic assessment. At the very least, an increased understanding of the cellular abnormalities associated with various diseases will likely change our view of illness and our approaches to nutritional and metabolic intervention.
AB - Although no techniques are currently available that meet the needs of nutrition-support professionals, the future is promising. This article reviews various methods and techniques used to assess the metabolic and nutritional status of surgical patients. Technologic advances in bioengineering, molecular biology, and physiology are providing exciting new tools that may eventually replace or supplement traditional static indices of metabolic assessment. At the very least, an increased understanding of the cellular abnormalities associated with various diseases will likely change our view of illness and our approaches to nutritional and metabolic intervention.
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U2 - 10.1007/s002680010263
DO - 10.1007/s002680010263
M3 - Review article
C2 - 11193709
AN - SCOPUS:0034526770
SN - 0364-2313
VL - 24
SP - 1460
EP - 1467
JO - World Journal of Surgery
JF - World Journal of Surgery
IS - 12
ER -