Nutritional support in the perioperative period.

• Understand the mechanisms behind the metabolic effects of trauma; • How does the stress response after traumatic injury lead to hypermetabolism; • What does this mean for protein metabolism; • Can certain aspects of the stress response after acute non-surgical trauma be avoided and how can they be treated; • Insights into the relationship between hypermetabolism, alterations in protein metabolsim and complications in surgery for trauma.