Response to trauma and metabolic changes: posttraumatic metabolism

Response to trauma and metabolic changes: posttraumatic metabolism.

Stress response caused by events such as surgical trauma includes endocrine, metabolic and immunological changes. Stress hormones and cytokines play a role in these reactions. More reactions are induced by greater stress, ultimately leading to greater catabolic effects. Cuthbertson reported the characteristic response that occurs in trauma patients: protein and fat consumption and protection of...

Changes in Trauma Memory and Patterns of Posttraumatic Stress

The traditional static view of trauma memory holds that memories for such events are fixed and relatively unchanging over time. A more recent dynamic view proposes that memory for potential trauma, like memory for ordinary events, changes with time. The present study examined predictions from these competing theories in repeated assessments of high exposed survivors of the September 11th (9/11)...

Some aspects of the metabolic response to surgical trauma.

The metabolic response to trauma is characterized by hypermetabolism, increased N excretion, accelerated fluxes of substrates (particularly glucose) between organs, and anorexia (Wilmore & Kinney, 1981). The combination of hypermetabolism and anorexia leads to negative energy and N balance. In the case of patients undergoing surgery, this situation is often superimposed on a state of nutritiona...

Endocrine and metabolic response to trauma in hypovolemic patients treated at a trauma center in Brazil

BACKGROUND The metabolic changes in trauma patients with shock contribute directly to the survival of the patient. To understand these changes better, we made a rigorous analysis of the variations in the main examinations requested for seriously polytraumatized patients. METHODS Prospective analysis of patients with blunt or penetrating trauma with hypovolemic shock, with systolic arterial pr...

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