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Blood flow and metabolic therapy in CNS injury
C S Robertson1, J C Goodman, R G Grossman
1Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
Journal of Neurotrauma
|May 1, 1992
Abstract:
A hypermetabolic state, consisting of increased resting energy expenditure, excessive protein wasting, and hyperglycemia, occurs in patients with a severe head injury. The hypermetabolism can affect survival by rapidly resulting in protein-calorie malnutrition (increased energy expenditure and protein wasting) and may adversely affect neurological recovery by altering the microenvironment of the injured brain (hyperglycemia).