Clinical nutrition : official journal of the European Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Early postoperative jejunostomy feeding with an immune modulating diet in patients undergoing resectional surgery for upper gastrointestinal cancer: a prospective, randomized, controlled, double-blind study.
The provision of perioperative immune modulating enteral feeds after major surgery may result in reduced infective complications, but meta-analyses have not demonstrated a survival advantage. The aim of this study was to determine whether early postoperative immune modulating jejunostomy feeding results in reduced infective complications in patients undergoing resectional surgery for upper gastrointestinal cancer. ⋯ Early postoperative feeding with an immune modulating diet conferred no outcome advantage when compared with a standard feed.