Postoperative nutrition in surgery for major trauma.
Research in the area of the nutritional support of trauma patients has continued to focus on a few main areas: the effect that the route, timing and type of feeding has on patient outcome, nutritional assessment and mucosal immunity. This year a nutritional conference has released a paper, summarizing the current state of research in this area, that generated some controversy.
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Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee, Memphis 38163, USA.
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D006801:Humans; D018928:Immunity, Mucosal; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D018529:Nutritional Support; D011182:Postoperative Care; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000601:surgery*