Abstract:Objective To study the clinical effect of perioperative enteral nutrition in patients with gastrointestinal cancer.Methods Totally 84 patients with gastrointestinal cancer who were admitted to our hospital from October 2014 to October 2016 were randomly divided into control group and study group,with 42 cases in each group.Both groups received surgery after admission.The control group perioperative implementation of parenteral nutrition support,and the study group perioperative implementation of enteral nutrition support.Observe and compare the immune index,the inflammatory index,the total time of hospitalization,the incidence of malnutrition and the satisfaction of patients on the first day before operation and the seventh day after operation.Results There was no significant difference in serum albumin (ALB),transferrin (TRF),total protein (TP) and prealbumin (PAB) between the two groups before operation (P>0.05).The levels of TRF and PAB ([1.73±0.19] g/L and [173.52±22.36] mg/L) were higher than those in the control group ([1.46±0.20] g/L and [140.36±27.41] mg/L),the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05).The total postoperative hospitalization time in study group ([11.19±1.34] d) was shorter than that in control group ([15.27±2.06] d),the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05).The rate of malnutrition occurred in study group (2.4%) was lower than that in control group (17.4%).The difference was statistically significant (P<0.05).The satisfaction rate of postoperative nutritional support (95.2%) was higher than that in the control group (78.6%),the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05).Conclusion Gastrointestinal cancer patients undergoing enteral nutrition support during surgical treatment can ensure nutritional supply of postoperative body and improve their immune indexes,speed up the recovery and reduce the possibility of occurrence of malnutrition.