Early Postoperative 24-Hour Continuous Jejunostomy Feeding in Esophagectomy Patients
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Early Postoperative 24-Hour Continuous Jejunostomy Feeding in Esophagectomy Patients
Esophagectomy can result in various postoperative nutrition-related complications that may impair the nutritional status of the patient. In our institution, we usually initiate 16-hour continuous jejunostomy feeding using an enteral feeding pump on postoperative day 2 as a routine protocol after esophagectomy. The target calorie intake was achieved in 6-7 days with this protocol, which is longe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Nutrition Research
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2287-3732,2287-3740
DOI: 10.7762/cnr.2014.3.1.69