Early Postoperative 24-Hour Continuous Jejunostomy Feeding in Esophagectomy Patients.
- Author:
Jeong Hyun LIM
1
;
Dal Lae JU
;
Yoohwa HWANG
;
Chang Hyun KANG
Author Information
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords: Early feeding; Esophagectomy; Jejunostomy
- MeSH: Enteral Nutrition; Esophagectomy*; Humans; Jejunostomy*; Nutritional Status
- From:Clinical Nutrition Research 2014;3(1):69-73
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: 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 longer than that required with other recently reported feeding protocols. Accordingly, early jejunostomy feeding protocol, which starts on postoperative day 1 and continues for 24 hours was attempted. In the present report, we described 3 cases of early 24-hour continuous jejunostomy feeding after esophagectomy. The use of this new protocol reduced the duration required to achieve the target calorie intake as less than 5 days without any enteral feeding-related complications.
