The journal of trauma and acute care surgery
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J Trauma Acute Care Surg · Apr 2015
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyA controlled resuscitation strategy is feasible and safe in hypotensive trauma patients: results of a prospective randomized pilot trial.
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J Trauma Acute Care Surg · Apr 2015
Randomized Controlled TrialPredictors of muscle protein synthesis after severe pediatric burns.
Following a major burn, skeletal muscle protein synthesis rate increases but is often insufficient to compensate for massively elevated muscle protein breakdown rates. Given the long-term nature of the pathophysiologic response to burn injury, we hypothesized that muscle protein synthesis rate would be chronically elevated in severely burned children. The objectives of this study were to characterize muscle protein synthesis rate of burned children over a period of 24 months after injury and to identify predictors that influence this response. ⋯ Prognostic study, level III.