Abstract | OBJECTIVE: DESIGN: Prospective randomised trial. SETTING: Teaching hospital, Latvia. SUBJECTS: 29 patients who had been operated on for severe pancreatitis. INTERVENTIONS: They were randomised to have either enteral nutrition and conventional intravenous fluids postoperatively (n = 11), or conventional intravenous fluids only (n = 18). 17 additional patients who had had major abdominal operations for other conditions were also given enteral nutrition and intravenous fluids and comprised the control group. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Nutritional intake, duration of stay in intensive care (ICU) and hospital morbidity, mortality, and outcome. RESULTS: 1 patient died of the 11 given enteral nutrition combined with conventional intravenous fluids, compared with 5/18 given fluids only. The pattern of bowel transit in the fed group did not differ from that in the control group. CONCLUSION:
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Authors | G Pupelis, E Austrums, A Jansone, R Sprucs, H Wehbi |
Journal | The European journal of surgery = Acta chirurgica
(Eur J Surg)
Vol. 166
Issue 5
Pg. 383-7
(May 2000)
ISSN: 1102-4151 [Print] England |
PMID | 10881949
(Publication Type: Clinical Trial, Journal Article, Randomized Controlled Trial)
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Topics |
- Acute Disease
- Enteral Nutrition
(adverse effects)
- Female
- Humans
- Length of Stay
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Pancreatitis
(mortality, therapy)
- Parenteral Nutrition
- Postoperative Care
- Prospective Studies
- Survival Analysis
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