Skip to main content
Top
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 3/2020

01-03-2020 | Less is More

Do critical care patients hibernate? Theoretical support for less is more

Authors: Giacomo Stanzani, Robert Tidswell, Mervyn Singer

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 3/2020

Login to get access

Excerpt

Energy balance is key to life. Organisms are confronted with trade-offs in their use of energy and have evolved mechanisms to cope with states of energy limitation. Given the central role that energy deficits play in critical illness, understanding these adaptations might improve our knowledge of disease, facilitate novel therapeutic strategies, and avoid injurious interventions. …
Literature
Metadata
Title
Do critical care patients hibernate? Theoretical support for less is more
Authors
Giacomo Stanzani
Robert Tidswell
Mervyn Singer
Publication date
01-03-2020
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 3/2020
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-019-05813-9

Other articles of this Issue 3/2020

Intensive Care Medicine 3/2020 Go to the issue