Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Volume 208, Issue 4 , Pages 489-502 , April 2009

Modulation of the Hypermetabolic Response to Trauma: Temperature, Nutrition, and Drugs

Presented as the IS Ravdin Lecture in the Basic Sciences at the American College of Surgeons 94th Annual Clinical Congress, San Francisco, CA, October 2008.

Received 12 January 2009 ,Accepted 14 January 2009.

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