Table 2.

Principles of FTS pathway and conventional pathway

	FTS pathway	Conventional pathway
Preoperative education	Patients were educated systematically by the esophageal clinical nurse consultant;	Patients were educated in the standard manner
Day before surgery
Diet	Last drink 2 h and diet 6 h before operation	Last drink and diet at midnight
Fructose and protein loading	Yes	No
Day of surgery
Nasogastric tube	No routine use of nasogastric tube	Routine use of nasogastric tube
Pre-anesthetic medication	No	Diazepam 10 mg
Anesthesia	General anesthesia + Epidural anesthesia;	General anesthesia;
Maintaining normothermia	Yes	No
Transfusion	Autologous blood transfusion or limit allogenic blood transfusion	Allogenic blood transfusion
Abdomen tube	No routine use of drains	Routine placement; Remove at POD3
Cervical tube	No routine use of drains	Routine placement; Remove at POD2
Early postoperative care	Patient sent to floor	Patient sent to ICU
Analgesia	Epidural PCA	Analgesia by morphine or vein PCA
Enteral nutrition	Jejunostomy tube feeding	Nasojejunal tube feeding