The experiences of the past decades have shown that critically ill patients regularly suffer marked tissue depletion. Recently, it has come to light that malnutrition may cause this depletion. The need, thus, arises for a comprehensive study of nutrition in the intensive care unit, a study relating present knowledge concerning the metabolic and catabolic states of the critically ill to possible applications in parenteral nutritional support.
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