PMID: 2109117Jan 1, 1990Paper

Nutritional support of the dysphagic patient: methods, risks, and complications of therapy

JPEN. Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
J V Sitzmann

Abstract

The indications, methods, and complications of nutritional support of 90 patients admitted with a primary complaint of dysphagia were reviewed. Patients were divided into two groups based on etiology of dysphagia (central neurologic vs local mechanical dysfunction). All patients on admission exhibited marked malnutrition with an average weight loss of 12 +/- 9.8% body weight, serum transferrin 165 +/- 60.1 mg/dl, and albumin 3.2 +/- 0.85 mg/dl. All patients were placed on either enteral (63%) or parenteral (37%) nutrition. Twenty-seven percent of all patients suffered a complication of nutritional therapy. Patients with nasoenteric tubes had a 10% complication incidence (aspiration or endotracheal placement of tube) resulting in a 30% mortality rate; significantly higher (p less than 0.05) than seen with other modalities. Any form of upper enteric feeding (nasoenteric or gastrostomy) was associated with significantly increased (p less than 0.01) risk of aspiration pneumonia. It is concluded that patients admitted to hospital with dysphagia as the major complaint suffer from severe malnutrition, and that upper gastrointestinal intubation should not be employed for feeding until the dysphagia has resolved.

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