Nutritional Care After Head and Neck Surgery

1 June 1973

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Postgraduate Medicine

Vol. 53 (7) , 80-86
https://doi.org/10.1080/00325481.1973.11713483

Abstract

Extraoral alimentation is often necessary for adequate nutritional support following extensive head and neck surgery. Nasogastric intubation is a simple, useful method for short-term tube feeding, but cervical esophagostomy or pharyngostomy is the procedure of choice for long-term extraoral alimentation. This article includes a feeding program based on a high-calorie diet, and considers parenteral hyperalimentation as an adjuvant to tube feeding.

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