Acute stress response after critical burn / 中华烧伤杂志

ABSTRACT

The stress response is a preexisting and adaptive behavioral mode of all living beings, which may bring deleterious consequences of dysfunction or failure of tissue and organ. This article aims to elaborate theories of stress response, summarize the manifestation and mechanism of acute stress response in critically burned patients, and help to improve clinical curative efficacy and prognosis of these patients by physiological, psychological and pharmacological methods.