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Are Present Fat Emulsions Appropriate?

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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))

Abstract

Lipid emulsions used in parenteral nutrition are administered to supply both energy and essential fatty acids to different tissues. Traditionally, these emulsions have been prepared using long-chain triglycerides (LCT) derived from soybean oil and phospholipids derived from egg yolk [1]. They have been marketed as 10% and 20% preparations, differing in the phospholipid/triglyceride ratio since the same amount of phospholipids (1.2 g/dL) was used in both types of preparations. Including these emulsions in the parenteral regimen of critically ill patients was shown to have beneficial effects, with respect to:

  1. 1.

    providing efficiently utilized energy substrates;

  2. 2.

    reducing the carbohydrate load and the associated respiratory and hepatic complications; and

  3. 3.

    avoiding or correcting essential fatty acid deficiency syndromes.

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Carpentier, Y.A. (1993). Are Present Fat Emulsions Appropriate?. 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_9

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