Nutritional aspects of enhanced recovery after esophagectomy with gastric conduit reconstruction

B. Feike Kingma, Elles Steenhagen, Jelle P. Ruurda, Richard van Hillegersberg*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) aims to accelerate recovery by a set of multimodality management strategies. For esophagectomy, several nutritional elements of ERAS can be safely introduced and are advised in routine practice, including preadmission counseling to screen and treat for potential malnutrition, shortened preoperative fasting, and carbohydrate loading. However, the timing of oral intake and the use of routine nasogastric decompression remain matter of debate after esophagectomy. Furthermore, more research is needed on future developments such as perioperative immunonutrition.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)623-629
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Surgical Oncology
Volume116
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2017

Keywords

  • cancer
  • ERAS
  • gastrointestinal
  • surgery
  • upper GI

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