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 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 16 The Stress Response after Traumatic Brain Injury: Metabolic and Hormonal Aspects

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