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Nutritional aspects of wound healing. 1997

K H Flanigan
Methodist Hospital, Merrillville, Ind, USA.

The nutritional aspects of wound healing include completing a nutritional assessment, estimating a patient's nutrient needs, and evaluating options for medical nutrition therapy. Some key nutrients involved in wound healing are discussed and their food sources described.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D009747 Nutritional Physiological Phenomena The processes and properties of living organisms by which they take in and balance the use of nutritive materials for energy, heat production, or building material for the growth, maintenance, or repair of tissues and the nutritive properties of FOOD. Nutrition Physiological Phenomena,Nutrition Physiology,Nutrition Processes,Nutritional Physiology Phenomena,Nutrition Phenomena,Nutrition Physiological Concepts,Nutrition Physiological Phenomenon,Nutrition Process,Nutritional Phenomena,Nutritional Physiological Phenomenon,Nutritional Physiology,Nutritional Physiology Concepts,Nutritional Physiology Phenomenon,Nutritional Process,Nutritional Processes,Concept, Nutrition Physiological,Concept, Nutritional Physiology,Concepts, Nutrition Physiological,Concepts, Nutritional Physiology,Nutrition Physiological Concept,Nutritional Physiology Concept,Phenomena, Nutrition,Phenomena, Nutrition Physiological,Phenomena, Nutritional,Phenomena, Nutritional Physiological,Phenomena, Nutritional Physiology,Phenomenon, Nutrition Physiological,Phenomenon, Nutritional Physiological,Phenomenon, Nutritional Physiology,Physiological Concept, Nutrition,Physiological Concepts, Nutrition,Physiological Phenomena, Nutrition,Physiological Phenomena, Nutritional,Physiological Phenomenon, Nutrition,Physiological Phenomenon, Nutritional,Physiology Concept, Nutritional,Physiology Concepts, Nutritional,Physiology Phenomena, Nutritional,Physiology Phenomenon, Nutritional,Physiology, Nutrition,Physiology, Nutritional,Process, Nutrition,Process, Nutritional,Processes, Nutrition,Processes, Nutritional
D009751 Nutritional Requirements The amounts of various substances in food needed by an organism to sustain healthy life. Dietary Requirements,Nutrition Requirements,Dietary Requirement,Nutrition Requirement,Nutritional Requirement,Requirement, Dietary,Requirement, Nutrition,Requirement, Nutritional,Requirements, Dietary,Requirements, Nutrition,Requirements, Nutritional
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D000886 Anthropometry The technique that deals with the measurement of the size, weight, and proportions of the human or other primate body.
D014945 Wound Healing Restoration of integrity to traumatized tissue. Healing, Wound,Healings, Wound,Wound Healings
D015596 Nutrition Assessment Evaluation and measurement of nutritional variables in order to assess the level of nutrition or the NUTRITIONAL STATUS of the individual. NUTRITION SURVEYS may be used in making the assessment. Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI),Assessment, Nutrition,Mini Nutrition Assessment,Mini Nutritional Assessment,Nutrition Assessments,Nutrition Index,Nutrition Indexes,Nutrition Indices,Nutritional Assessment,Nutritional Index,Prognostic Nutritional Index,Assessment, Mini Nutrition,Assessment, Mini Nutritional,Assessment, Nutritional,Assessments, Mini Nutrition,Assessments, Mini Nutritional,Assessments, Nutrition,Assessments, Nutritional,Index, Nutrition,Index, Nutritional,Index, Prognostic Nutritional,Index, Prognostic Nutritional (PNI),Indexes, Nutrition,Indices, Nutrition,Indices, Nutritional,Indices, Prognostic Nutritional,Indices, Prognostic Nutritional (PNI),Mini Nutrition Assessments,Mini Nutritional Assessments,Nutrition Assessment, Mini,Nutrition Assessments, Mini,Nutritional Assessment, Mini,Nutritional Assessments,Nutritional Assessments, Mini,Nutritional Index, Prognostic,Nutritional Index, Prognostic (PNI),Nutritional Indices,Nutritional Indices, Prognostic,Nutritional Indices, Prognostic (PNI),Prognostic Nutritional Indices,Prognostic Nutritional Indices (PNI)
D018529 Nutritional Support The administration of nutrients for assimilation and utilization by a patient by means other than normal eating. It does not include FLUID THERAPY which normalizes body fluids to restore WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE. Artificial Feeding,Feeding, Artificial,Support, Nutritional

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