Quantity
Use
Exhaustion
Net body
protein
10% BW
Glucose precursor
wide, situationdependent
Liver
glycogen
300 g
Glucose precursor
24 h
Fat
20% BW
Fatty acid
40 days
& glucose precursor
complications
infections
Multiple organ
failure
(lung, GI, liver,
BW = body weight
in kg
H
= height in cm
A = age in years
IF (Injury Factor)
Uncomplicated patient
1.0
Postoperative state 1.1
Fractures
1.2
Sepsis
1.3
Peritonitis
1.4
Multiple trauma
1.5
Multiple trauma
1.6
& sepsis
Burns 30 - 50%
1.7
Non-essential AA
histidine *
glycine
arginine*
serine*
alanine
proline
asparagine
tyrosine*- Aromatic
(ornithine)
AA
aspartic acid
cysteine*
glutamic acid
glutamine
(* ?)
http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/education/AminoAcid/overvi
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Amino Acid Solutions
Triglycerides
- esters of glycerol and 3 fatty acids, also called
triacylglycerols
- classified depending on chain lengths of free fatty
acids attached to glycerol
backbone e.g. SCT,
SCFA
SCFA
Short chain triglyceride
MCT, LCT
(SCT)
SCFA
MCFA
MCFA
Medium chain triglyceride
(MCT)
MCFA
Long chain triglycerideLCFA
(LCT)
LCFA
LCFA
Note well
Lipids,
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