TY - JOUR T1 - <span hwp:id="article-title-1" class="article-title">Normal food at will and nil-by-mouth enteral feeding after major upper GI surgery did not differ for mortality or morbidity</span><span hwp:id="article-title-2" class="sub-article-title">Commentary</span> JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 21 LP - 21 DO - 10.1136/ebn.12.1.21 VL - 12 IS - 1 AU - Mary M Brennan Y1 - 2009/01/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/12/1/21.abstract N2 - K LassenDr K Lassen, University Hospital Northern Norway, Tromso, Norway; lassen@unn.noDoes allowing normal food at will increase morbidity compared with “nil-by-mouth” enteral tube feeding (ETF) after major upper gastrointestinal (GI) surgery?Design:randomised controlled trial (RCT).Allocation:concealed.Blinding:{unblinded}.*Follow-up period:8 weeks.Setting:5 referral centres in Norway.Patients:453 patients (mean age 64 y, 59% men, based on 447 patients) who had major upper GI surgery. Exclusion criteria included severe extra-abdominal disease or trauma, life expectancy &lt;3 months, or indications for parenteral nutrition.Interventions:normal food at will (n = 220) or ETF by needle-catheter jejunostomy (n = 227) after surgery. ETF consisted of nutrition, 20 ml/h on day 1, increasing by 20 ml/h/d (if tolerated) up … ER -