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COLLADO HERNANDEZ, Carlos Manuel  y  PEREZ NUNEZ, Vivian. Basic aspects of the enteral nutrition in the burned patient. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2013, vol.52, n.4, pp. 332-341. ISSN 0034-7493.

The nutritional treatment is an important element in the combined therapy of lesions from severe burns, thus allowing a control of catabolism in the patient, Hypermetabolism in burned patients encourages the increase of caloric protein requirements, the influence of early starting of nutrition supports the hemodynamic stability. The objective of this review was to describe the essential and present aspects of the enteral nutrition in the widely burned patient such as routes of administration, importance of application, main formulae for the energetic and protein calculations, treatment with macronutrients and micronutrients to guarantee adequate nutrition according to the requirements. Enteral nutrition continues being the most important and safest route of administration in the widely burned patient for giving him macronutrients and micronutrients that are necessary in the metabolic processes to assure cicatrization and healing.

Palabras clave : enteral nutrition; burns; hypermetabolism.

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