The nutritional condition of the patient is diagnosed for example during the diagnosis announcement consultation.

The dietician educates all patients about a high-calorie high-protein diet to have a satisfactory nutritional status at the time of the surgery and thus optimise healing.

He/she informs the patient and presents the post-operative feeding procedures:

– exclusive enteral nutrition for at least 10 days, explanation of this type of nutritional support

– immediately after a positive methylene blue-test: progressive resumption of oral feeding

If the patient presents protein-energy undernutrition and/or oral feeding difficulties, , the dietician:

– Provides advice to adjust the texture of food, if necessary

– And/or propose an oral nutritional supplement

– And/or asks the doctor to use enteral nutrition, most of the time via NGT