Enteral tube feeding at the early postoperative period (stomach surgery)]

The article describes a comparative analysis of the efficacy of various variants of nutritive support in 115 patients with complicated gastroduodenal ulcers at the early postoperative period. 95 patients received enteral tube feeding, 50 of them receiving balanced isocaloric formulas and 45 of them receiving broths and decoctions as a nutritious substrate. The control group comprised 20 patients who received full parenteral feeding. The results were assessed on Day 5 after the beginning of feeding. Satisfactory results were received in all of the groups. The main advantages of balanced formulas are their easy dosage, smaller number of complications and lower price (as compared to parenteral feeding) as well as better (as compared to "ordinary" products) indexes of the nutritious status recovery.