title: [A special nutrition case: the infected patient].
abstract: Severe septicemia is commonly a catabolic disease process with increased energy demands and enhanced protein degradation. Septic ICU-patients are on the one hand dependent on a sufficient substrate application; on the other hand, however, the organism's tolerance against exogenous substrate application is very often diminished in these patients because of varying organ insufficiencies. Because septicemia is not a uniform type of illness with predictable organ dysfunctions, it is not possible to give recommendations for a specific nutritional diet in septic patients. Nutritional management must be adapted individually according to the type and the degree of organ dysfunctions associated with septicemia.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinik für Anästhesiologie, Klinikum der Universität Ulm.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Schmitz
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D004750:Enteral Nutrition / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009102:Multiple Organ Failure / Q000628:therapy; D010289:Parenteral Nutrition, Total / Q000379:methods*; D018805:Sepsis / Q000628:therapy*; D012772:Shock, Septic / Q000628:therapy*
vernacular_title: Der besondere Ernährungsfall: der septische Patient.