title: The metabolic stress response to burn trauma: current understanding and therapies.
abstract: Major burns provoke a profound stress response, which is unrivalled in terms of its magnitude and duration. Evidence suggests that the pathophysiological stress response to severe burn trauma persists for several years after injury. Thus, there is a pressing need for novel strategies that mitigate this response and restore normal metabolic function in patients with burns. This is the first in a Series of three papers about the care of people with burns. In this paper, we review the current knowledge of the stress response to burn trauma, with a focus on hypermetabolism, muscle wasting, and stress-induced diabetes. We highlight recent developments and important knowledge gaps that need to be pursued to develop novel therapeutic strategies to improve outcomes in burn survivors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA; Shriners Hospitals for Children, Galveston, TX, USA. Electronic address: cr2porte@utmb.edu.
authors.forename: Craig
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Porter
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Ronald G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Tompkins
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA; Shriners Hospitals for Children, Galveston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Celeste C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Finnerty
authors.affiliation: Department of Kinesiology and Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA; Department of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
authors.forename: Labros S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Sidossis
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA; Shriners Hospitals for Children, Galveston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Oscar E
authors.initials: OE
authors.lastname: Suman
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA; Shriners Hospitals for Children, Galveston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: David N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Herndon
mesh_terms: D002056:Burns / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D013312:Stress, Physiological