ZHANG xing-xia
West china school of Nursing,Sichuan University
Title: Research review of preoperative nutritional support in elective surgery patients with gastrointestinal cancer
Biography
Biography: ZHANG xing-xia
Abstract
The incidence of malnutrition in patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancer is high, preoperative nutritional support can effectively improve the clinical outcomes. However, due to various factors, preoperative nutritional support has not been widely used in clinic. So we systematically searched the evidences of preoperative nutritional support in GI cancer and reviewed the evaluation of malnutrition in patients with GI tumors, indications, approaches, duration, types and dosage of nutritional supplements for preoperative nutritional support, and there are some doubts were identified.As for nutrition evaluation, there are many tools used in the clinical, however, no one can systematically evaluate the patient′s nutrition status.