Perioperative Tube Feedings – Common Questions

Features| April 2024 Perioperative Tube Feedings – Common Questions Michael C. Banks, MD, MEHP; Michael C. Banks, MD, MEHP Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Ashish Agrawal, MD; Ashish Agrawal, MD Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Karsten Bartels, MD, PhD, MBA; Karsten Bartels, MD, PhD, MBA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Alexander Nagrebetsky, MD, MSc Alexander Nagrebetsky, MD, MSc Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar ASA Monitor April 2024, Vol. 88, 19. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0001010668.48792.18 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Search Site Citation Michael C. Banks, Ashish Agrawal, Karsten Bartels, Alexander Nagrebetsky; Perioperative Tube Feedings – Common Questions. ASA Monitor 2024; 88:19 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0001010668.48792.18 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll PublicationsASA Monitor Search Advanced Search Topics: perioperative care Approximately 100,000 critically ill patients in the United States each year are exposed to the uncertainty regarding optimal management of perioperative tube feeding. While half of the institutions minimize preprocedural interruption of tube feeding, the mostly unnecessary and harmful prolonged fasting is still practiced by more than 40% of hospitals. The ASA Committee on Critical Care Medicine has recently produced practice recommendations on the perioperative management of tube feeding in hospitalized patients. Although large, randomized trials in this field are lacking, retrospective studies in hundreds of intubated ICU patients showed no evidence of harm with tube feeding until transfer to the OR and suggested a potential reduction in acute respiratory distress syndrome, pneumonia, and mortality (J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2016;80:957-63; JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr 2018;42:529-37). Based on such data and the clinical experience of the ASA committee members, we recommend that in most mechanically ventilated... You do not currently have access to this content.