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Respiratory Quotient and Patterns of Substrate Utilization in Human Sepsis and Trauma

Centro di Studio per la Fisiopatologia dello Shock, C.N.R., Rome and the Istituto di Clinica Chirurgica Generale e Terapia Chirurgica, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Giuseppe Boldrini, M.D.

Centro di Studio per la Fisiopatologia dello Shock, C.N.R., Rome and the Istituto di Clinica Chirurgica Generale e Terapia Chirurgica, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Marco Castagneto, M.D.

Centro di Studio per la Fisiopatologia dello Shock, C.N.R., Rome and the Istituto di Clinica Chirurgica Generale e Terapia Chirurgica, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Gabriele Sganga, M.D.

Centro di Studio per la Fisiopatologia dello Shock, C.N.R., Rome and the Istituto di Clinica Chirurgica Generale e Terapia Chirurgica, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Giuseppe Nanni, M.D.

Centro di Studio per la Fisiopatologia dello Shock, C.N.R., Rome and the Istituto di Clinica Chirurgica Generale e Terapia Chirurgica, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Mauro Pittiruti, M.D.

Centro di Studio per la Fisiopatologia dello Shock, C.N.R., Rome and the Istituto di Clinica Chirurgica Generale e Terapia Chirurgica, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Giancarlo Castiglioni, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Centro di Studio per la Fisiopatologia dello Shock, C.N.R., Rome and the Istituto di Clinica Chirurgica Generale e Terapia Chirurgica, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Three hundred measurements of indirect calorimetric and hemodynamic variables were performed in 99 critically ill septic and nonseptic surgical patients. Septics manifested, with respect to nonseptics, higher O₂ consumption, metabolic rate and cardiac index, and lower respiratory quotient in the presence of higher glucose infusion rates and glucose infusion rate/metabolic rate ratios. Among septics there was a group of more severely ill patients with signs of multiple organ failure who manifested a dissociated pattern characterized by a tendency to decreased O₂ consumption in the presence of increasing cardiac index and central venous O₂ partial pressure: they had higher respiratory quotients, with respect to the other septics, for a given glucose infusion rate/metabolic rate ratio. The lower mean respiratory quotient of septics indicates that they depend generally more than nonseptic trauma patients on fat as an energy substrate and confirms a previously obtained evidence of limited hepatic lipogenesis in sepsis. At the same time, however, it is suggested that fat utilization becomes impaired (and hepatic lipogenesis becomes prominent) in sepsis at a stage in which signs of impaired oxidative metabolism and major metabolic abnormalities also develop.

Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Vol. 7, No. 3, 226-230 (1983)
DOI: 10.1177/0148607183007003226


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