Administer medications via the oral route when possible. Determine the enteral feeding tube size (e.g., small bore or large bore), insertion site (e.g., nasal or percutaneous), tip location (e.g ...

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Short-term enteral access is usually achieved via naso-enteral tube placement. For longer term tube feeding there are recognised advantages for enteral feeding tubes placed percutaneously. The ...

Enteral feeding tube is a medical device used for delivery of liquid feed to patients. It is used for infants and children who have functioning gastrointestinal tract, but are unable to obtain ...

As patients are usually unable to swallow oral drugs and many drugs should not be crushed, ways have to be found to administer them through the feeding tube. Measures to improve the quality of oral ...

Introduction NHS Lothian home enteral tube feeding (HETF) point prevalence figures reveal that of the 328 adults on HETF in the Lothian region, 18 (5.4%) are being fed via jejunostomy. The aims of ...

A 53-year-old man with dysphagia underwent uneventful placement of a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube for long-term enteral feeding access. 11 hours after the procedure, it was ...