Effect of enteral nutrition supplied by early percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy on prognoses in the patients with severe traumatic brain injury
LI Shi-jun
FENG Jin-zhou
LIU Qi-dong
LIU Fa-jian
Abstract：Objective To study the effect of early enteral nutrition supplied by percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy on the prognoses in the patients with severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI). Methods One hundred and twenty-six patients with sTBI were randomly divided into two group, i.e. observed group where 63 patients were supplied with enteral nutrition by the percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy 3 days after sTBI and control group where 61 patients were supplied with nutrtion by nasogastric tube 3 days after sTBI. The change in the gastrointestinal function and complications during the enteral nutrition were observed in all the patients. The serum albumin and hemoglobin levels and nitrogen balance were determined 1, 14 and 28 days after the enteral nutrition in all the patients. The prognoses were assessed by GOS in all the patients. Results There were insignificantly differences in the serum albumin and hemoglobin levels, nitrogen balance and prognoses between both the groups (P>0.05). The rates of occurrences of the gastric contents return and pneumonia were significantly lower in the observed group than those in the control group (P<0.05). Conclusion The entral nutrition supplied by early percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy is helpful to reducing the complications in the patients with TBI.
Keywords：Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomyTraumatic brain injuryEnteral nutritionPrognosis
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 93-95 )