CLEVELAND, March 30-Surgery or a major infection often leaves patients without an appetite or with difficulty swallowing, and this problem is usually solved by employing a nasogastric tube to ...

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses has updated its Practice Alert for feeding tube insertion and created a new Practice Alert covering aspiration prevention practices for tube-fed ...

They call themselves "tubies" -- people with certain medical conditions who accept long-term feeding tubes as the best or only way to nourish themselves. With the feeding tube in place, many resume ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2008;65(24):2347-2357. 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., ...

A feeding tube, also known as a gavage tube, is used to give nutrition to infants who cannot eat on their own. The feeding tube is normally used in a hospital, but it can be used at home to feed ...

To determine the effects of feeding modality on protein synthesis in different tissues, neonatal pigs received a balanced formula by orogastric tube as an intermittent bolus feed every 4 h or as a ...

Enteral feeding is the intake of food when you can’t physically or safely eat regularly. If you have a condition that impairs movement or experienced an injury, enteral feeding may be used to ensure ...

The advent of total parenteral nutrition in the late 1960s meant that no situation remained in which a patient could not be fed. Unfortunately, total parenteral nutrition was complicated by serious ...

A healthy individual places food into their mouth, which they then chew and swallow. The food moves into the stomach from the esophagus, where it is digested and broken down before entering the small ...

To reduce drug–nutrient interactions, it is important to consider timing of drug delivery in relation to EN. This is affected by both the frequency of medication administration and the enteral feeding ...