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Enhancing Wound Healing in Severely Burned Patients

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Metabolic Support of the Critically Ill Patient

Part of the book series: Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine ((UICM,volume 17))

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Wound healing is often delayed in severely burned patients due to changes in hormone balance, metabolism and immune function. With early wound closure, the hypermetabolic response and risk of infection are reduced. This chapter will discuss some endocrinology and metabolism associated with burn injuries and present some experimental evidence on the benefits of recombinant human growth hormone (GH) in burned children.

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  1. Laboratory for Surgical Metabolism, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, Massachussetts, 02115, USA

    Douglas W. Wilmore

  2. L. Deloyers Laboratory for Experimental Surgery, Free University of Brussels, Avenue J. Wybran 40, 1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Yvon A. Carpentier

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Gilpin, D.A., Muller, M.J., Herndon, D.N. (1993). Enhancing Wound Healing in Severely Burned Patients. In: Wilmore, D.W., Carpentier, Y.A. (eds) Metabolic Support of the Critically Ill Patient. Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85011-0_13

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