Validity of parentral nutrition after major neck surgeries

ABSTRACT

Assessment of parentral nutrition as a substitute therapy to enteral nutrition after major neck surgeries with primary pharyngeal repair. Forty patients were included in this study underwent various neck surgeries were prospectively randomized to receive either enteral nutrition [20] patients or parentral nutrition [20] patients. The patients were monitored for postoperative complications, wound healing, hospital stay, time to natural feeding and weight loss. The compared items were similar in both groups [mean duration of nutrition was 9.65, 9.9 days for TPN and NGT group respectively, mean hospital stay was 11.65, 11.9 days for TPN and NGT groups respectively, wound dehiscence and infection was in 15%, 20% in TPN and NGT respectively and also same result for pharyngocutaneous fistula, weight loss was 2.6 Kgm for TPN group and 2.39 Kgm for NGT group; p value was insignificant in all items. There were no major postoperative complications in both groups. The present study reveals that there was no significant statistical difference between parentral and enteral nutrition when used for postoperative nutrition after major neck surgeries