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Despite poor gastric emptying, small bowel function usually remains relatively intact and placement of a post-pyloric small bowel feeding tube may allow for the administration of enteral nutrition in these patients.
However, placement of small bowel feeding tubes may be extremely challenging and result in a delay in the initiation of enteral feeding.
Although it is possible that the short delay in the initiation of enteral nutrition in the small intestine fed patients could increase infective complications, the results of this analysis do not support that contention.
Early enteral nutrition has been demonstrated to improve nitrogen balance, wound healing and host immune function, and to augment cellular antioxidant systems, decrease the hypermetabolic response to tissue injury and preserve intestinal mucosal integrity [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ] . In a previous study [ 8 ] , we reported that initiation of enteral nutrition within 36 hours of surgery or admission to hospital reduces infectious complications and hospital length of stay (LOS).
Although the time to the initiation of enteral nutrition was reported in only three studies, it was significantly shorter in those patients randomly assigned to receive nutrition by the gastric route (-16.