{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.014634146341463415, 'fraction_numerical': 0.0, 'mean_word_length': 5.315384615384615, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
Metabolic aspects of intensive care.

Patients admitted to intensive care units may suffer from the failure of more than one organ system. Good management therefore consists of the correction not only of cardiorespiratory problems, but also of gastrointestinal dysfunction, nutritional and metabolic defects, water and electrolyte balance and degrees of renal failure. Whilst all these aspects have to be considered separately, they relate to each other, and neglect of one factor may reflect adversely upon the others. It is the purpose of this paper to discuss first the nutritional and metabolic problems and second some related aspects of the water, electrolyte and renal pathophysiology of critically ill patients. In order to give logical treatment it is first necessary to analyse the physiological abnormalities.