[Metabolic staging and nutritional treatment strategies of severely burned patients]

Abstract

The complexity of burn metabolism and limitations of its cognition are the core factors leading to dissatisfactory efficacy of nutritional therapy in severe burn patients. Precise understanding of burn metabolic rules is a prerequisite for improving the pertinence and effectiveness of nutritional therapy. The previous division of burn metabolic stages based on energy consumption did not pay enough attention to substance metabolism, so it is difficult to fully comprehend the overall change pattern and stage characteristics of burn metabolism. Through the effective integration of the metabonomics, physiomics, and clinical data, combining the pathophysiological characteristics of burns at different clinical phases, this paper suggested that the metabolism of severe burns should be divided into four stages and proposed the corresponding nutritional strategies and measures according to different metabolic characteristics, in order to provide a basis for further enhancing the nutritional efficacy in burn patients.