Nutrition Management in Enhanced Recovery After Abdominal Pancreatic Surgery

Publication date: Available online 21 October 2017 Source:Cirugía Española (English Edition) Author(s): Elena Márquez Mesa, Caleb Baz Figueroa, José Pablo Suárez Llanos, Pablo Sanz Pereda, Manuel Ángel Barrera Gómez Multimodal rehabilitation programs are perioperative standardized strategies with the objective of improving patient recovery, and decreasing morbidity, hospital stay and health cost. The nutritional aspect is an essential component of multimodal rehabilitation programs and therefore nutritional screening is recommended prior to hospital admission, avoiding pre-surgical fasting, with oral carbohydrate overload and early initiation of oral intake after surgery. However, there are no standardized protocols of diet progression after pancreatic surgery. A systematic review was been performed of papers published between 2006 and 2016, describing different nutritional strategies after pancreatic surgery and its possible implications in postoperative outcome. The studies evaluated are very heterogeneous, so conclusive results could not be drawn on the diet protocol to be implemented, its influence on clinical variables, or the need for concomitant artificial nutrition.
Source: Cirugia Espanola - Category: Surgery Source Type: research