Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Successive Phases of the Metabolic Response to Stress

Chapter 3 Bioenergetics of the Stress Response

Chapter 4 Mitochondrial Adaptation and Hibernation

Chapter 5 Anabolic Resistance

Chapter 6 Use of Lipids as Energy Substrates

Chapter 7 The Stress Response of Critical Illness: Metabolic and Hormonal Aspects

Chapter 8 Stress Hyperglycemia

Chapter 9 Protein Metabolism

Chapter 10 Micronutrients

Chapter 11 Thyroidal Changes During Critical Illness

Chapter 12 Stress Response: Adrenal Function

Chapter 13 Enterohormones and the Response to Critical Illness

Chapter 14 Adipokines in Critical Illness

Chapter 15 Severe Undernutrition

Chapter 17 Sepsis and Multiple Organ Failure

Chapter 18 The Stress Response of Critical Illness: Metabolic and Hormonal Aspects, Hormonal Regulation, Particular Clinical Situations “Morbid Obesity”

Chapter 19 Hypermetabolic Response to Burn Injury