Improved wound healing response in surgical patients receiving intravenous nutrition

✍ Scribed by D. A. Haydock; Professor G. L. Hill

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 460 KB
• Volume: 74
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800740432

✦ Synopsis

For many years surgeons have known that prolonged septic starvation is associated with unhealed wounds, failure of fistulae to close and ununited fractures'. It is also known that nutritional repletion accompanied by weight gain and positive nitrogen balance usually results in a marked improvement. In spite of these observations, it has been difficult to supply scientifically evaluable data on wound healing in human subjects sufficient to satisfy those who maintain that intravenous nutrition (IVN) is not often effective. Here, using a new miniature technique', we present objective evidence which suggests that IVN effectively enhances the wound healing response in surgical patients.