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Development of automated postoperative enteral nutrition: restricting feeding site inflow to match peristaltic outflow

BACKGROUND: Surgical stress accelerates postoperative metabolism, while simultaneously compromising gut activity. The dysfunction may be worsened by early feeding. These patients are not expected to fully meet their optimum metabolic requirements using current nutritional regimens. For optimum posto...

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Autor principal: Moss, Gerald
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4676842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26692893
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13022-015-0022-1
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description BACKGROUND: Surgical stress accelerates postoperative metabolism, while simultaneously compromising gut activity. The dysfunction may be worsened by early feeding. These patients are not expected to fully meet their optimum metabolic requirements using current nutritional regimens. For optimum postoperative enteral nutrition, we must automatically match the patients’ feeding site inflows to their impaired peristaltic outflows. An essential adjunct is virtually complete exclusion of swallowed air. The small diameter post-pyloric duodenum is an efficient site for both aspiration and feeding. METHOD: A multi-lumen feeding-decompression tube is utilized to feed an “elemental diet” (1 kcal/ml) at the rate of 3000–5000 ml/day immediately postoperatively. Outflow from the feeding site, relative to inflow, is monitored. Excess aspirate is discarded automatically, so that the re-fed inflow exactly matches the peristaltic outflow. The aspirate (digestive secretions, feedings, and swallowed air) is degassed. The aspirate is then directed by one-way valves alternately, every 30 s, into a pair of 30 ml collection chambers for re-feeding. Simultaneously, the previously collected aspirate (less discarded volume, if required) is delivered by gravity into the slightly more distal duodenum. RESULTS: Within 2 h, the return of the entire aspirate volume is tolerated. The patients’ increased metabolic demands are met early on the initial day of surgery. They achieve positive protein balance, with documented enhanced healing (experimentally) and immune globulin synthesis (clinically). Breakfast is tolerated the morning following operation, with discharge soon thereafter. X-ray motility and nutrient absorption studies document the more rapid return of clinically normal peristalsis. CONCLUSION: Automatically keeping the proximal duodenum and stomach continuously decompressed, while simultaneously re-feeding tolerated degassed duodenal aspirate, leads to more rapid return of clinically adequate G-I function postoperatively. In addition to maximizing immediately postoperative nourishment, the secretory globulins are salvaged, and spontaneously delivered into the colon, where they provide natural antimicrobial protection.
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spelling pubmed-46768422015-12-13 Development of automated postoperative enteral nutrition: restricting feeding site inflow to match peristaltic outflow Moss, Gerald Ann Surg Innov Res Methodology BACKGROUND: Surgical stress accelerates postoperative metabolism, while simultaneously compromising gut activity. The dysfunction may be worsened by early feeding. These patients are not expected to fully meet their optimum metabolic requirements using current nutritional regimens. For optimum postoperative enteral nutrition, we must automatically match the patients’ feeding site inflows to their impaired peristaltic outflows. An essential adjunct is virtually complete exclusion of swallowed air. The small diameter post-pyloric duodenum is an efficient site for both aspiration and feeding. METHOD: A multi-lumen feeding-decompression tube is utilized to feed an “elemental diet” (1 kcal/ml) at the rate of 3000–5000 ml/day immediately postoperatively. Outflow from the feeding site, relative to inflow, is monitored. Excess aspirate is discarded automatically, so that the re-fed inflow exactly matches the peristaltic outflow. The aspirate (digestive secretions, feedings, and swallowed air) is degassed. The aspirate is then directed by one-way valves alternately, every 30 s, into a pair of 30 ml collection chambers for re-feeding. Simultaneously, the previously collected aspirate (less discarded volume, if required) is delivered by gravity into the slightly more distal duodenum. RESULTS: Within 2 h, the return of the entire aspirate volume is tolerated. The patients’ increased metabolic demands are met early on the initial day of surgery. They achieve positive protein balance, with documented enhanced healing (experimentally) and immune globulin synthesis (clinically). Breakfast is tolerated the morning following operation, with discharge soon thereafter. X-ray motility and nutrient absorption studies document the more rapid return of clinically normal peristalsis. CONCLUSION: Automatically keeping the proximal duodenum and stomach continuously decompressed, while simultaneously re-feeding tolerated degassed duodenal aspirate, leads to more rapid return of clinically adequate G-I function postoperatively. In addition to maximizing immediately postoperative nourishment, the secretory globulins are salvaged, and spontaneously delivered into the colon, where they provide natural antimicrobial protection. BioMed Central 2015-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4676842/ /pubmed/26692893 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13022-015-0022-1 Text en © Moss. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_short Development of automated postoperative enteral nutrition: restricting feeding site inflow to match peristaltic outflow
title_sort development of automated postoperative enteral nutrition: restricting feeding site inflow to match peristaltic outflow
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4676842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26692893
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13022-015-0022-1
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