Importance Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is a global surgical quality
improvement initiative now firmly entrenched within the field of perioperative care. Although …

Background & aims Malnutrition has been recognized as a major risk factor for adverse
postoperative outcomes. The ESPEN Symposium on perioperative nutrition was held in …

Early oral feeding is the preferred mode of nutrition for surgical patients. Avoidance of any
nutritional therapy bears the risk of underfeeding during the postoperative course after major …

Life expectancy is increasing and so is the prevalence of age-related non-communicable
diseases (NCDs). Consequently, older people and patients present with multi-morbidities …

Importance The effect of and optimal timing for initiating supplemental parenteral nutrition
(SPN) remain unclear after major abdominal surgery for patients in whom energy targets …

This publication was approved by both the ASCRS and SAGES executive council and then
peer-reviewed by the Diseases of the Colon & Rectum and Surgical Endoscopy And Other …

Nowadays, patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery are following perioperative
treatment in enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols. Although oral feeding is …

Background Gastrectomy is the most effective treatment to improve the clinical survival rate
of patients with gastric cancer. However, the pathophysiological changes caused by …

Gastric cancer is one of the most frequently diagnosed and the leading cause of cancer
death worldwide. Malnutrition is a substantial problem in patients with gastric cancer …

Postoperative enteral nutrition has been widely implemented in esophageal cancer, but the
efficacy and safety of preoperative nutrition, particularly immune-enhancing nutrition (IEN) …