TY - JOUR
T1 - Pentobarbital Coma in Neurosurgical Patients
T2 - Nutrition Considerations
AU - Magnuson, Barbara
AU - Hatton, Jimmi
AU - Zweng, Thomas N.
AU - Young, Byron
PY - 1994/8
Y1 - 1994/8
N2 - Neurosurgical patients in pentobarbital coma are a complex nutrition support population. Physiologic changes associated with the primary injury to the brain, combined with the pharmacodynamic influences of barbiturate therapy, contribute to the difficulties of initiating aggressive nutrition support. Early nutritional repletion is important to the overall outcome of traumatically injured patients. Consequently, factors that influence nutrition support decisions must be understood to assure appropriate intervention. The metabolic changes associated with traumatic head injury, pentobarbital therapy, and nutrition support strategies are reviewed.
AB - Neurosurgical patients in pentobarbital coma are a complex nutrition support population. Physiologic changes associated with the primary injury to the brain, combined with the pharmacodynamic influences of barbiturate therapy, contribute to the difficulties of initiating aggressive nutrition support. Early nutritional repletion is important to the overall outcome of traumatically injured patients. Consequently, factors that influence nutrition support decisions must be understood to assure appropriate intervention. The metabolic changes associated with traumatic head injury, pentobarbital therapy, and nutrition support strategies are reviewed.
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U2 - 10.1177/0115426594009004146
DO - 10.1177/0115426594009004146
M3 - Article
C2 - 8078453
AN - SCOPUS:0028487843
SN - 0884-5336
VL - 9
SP - 146
EP - 150
JO - Nutrition in Clinical Practice
JF - Nutrition in Clinical Practice
IS - 4
ER -