Open AccessNew Progress in Nursing for Early Enteral Nutrition after Esophageal Carcinoma Surgery
Author(s) -
Lina Liu
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2315-4578
DOI - 10.18686/jn.v4i4.2
Subject(s) - medicine , malnutrition , parenteral nutrition , intensive care medicine , enteral administration , carcinoma , nursing , surgery , general surgery
Esophageal carcinoma drains the body, and its surgery causes dramatic trauma. After operation, patients must abstain from food. The body experiences negative nitrogen balance for a long time after operation due to fever, stress and loss of body fluids as well as digestive juices. Hence, nutritional support appears to be extremely important. Nurses needed to pay more attention in solving the problem of post-operative malnutrition.