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Metabolic assessment.

D O Jacobs1, M Wong

  • 1Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. djacobs@creighton.edu

World Journal of Surgery
|February 24, 2001
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Assessing surgical patients

Area of Science:

  • Surgical nutrition
  • Metabolic assessment
  • Physiology

Background:

  • Current techniques for assessing metabolic and nutritional status in surgical patients are insufficient.
  • Future advancements in technology promise improved assessment methods.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review current methods for assessing metabolic and nutritional status in surgical patients.
  • To explore emerging technologies and their potential impact on patient care.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing literature on metabolic and nutritional assessment techniques.
  • Discussion of technological advancements in bioengineering, molecular biology, and physiology.

Main Results:

  • No current techniques fully meet the needs of nutrition-support professionals.

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  • Technological advances offer potential for improved metabolic assessment.

    • Conclusions:

    • Future technologies may supplement or replace traditional metabolic assessment indices.
    • Improved understanding of cellular abnormalities will likely alter approaches to nutritional and metabolic interventions.