Combined enteral feeding and total parenteral nutritional support improves outcome in surgical intensive care unit patients.

Background: For intensive care unit (ICU) patients with gastrointestinal dysfunction and in need of total parenteral nutrition (TPN) support, the benefit of additional enteral feeding is not clear. This study aimed to investigate whether combined TPN with enteral feeding is associated with better outcomes in surgical intensive care unit (SICU) patients.

Methods: Clinical data of 88 patients in SICU were retrospectively collected.