title: Early postoperative 24-hour continuous jejunostomy feeding in esophagectomy patients.
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.
authors: Department of Food Service and Nutrition Care, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul 110-744, Korea.
authors: Jeong Hyun
authors: JH
authors: Lim
authors: Department of Food Service and Nutrition Care, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul 110-744, Korea.
authors: Dal Lae
authors: DL
authors: Ju
authors: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 110-744, Korea.
authors: Yoohwa
authors: Y
authors: Hwang
authors: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 110-744, Korea.
authors: Chang Hyun
authors: CH
authors: Kang
keywords: Early feeding; Esophagectomy; Jejunostomy