DEAR MISS MANNERS: We have a longtime friend, and now neighbor, who cannot consume food orally due to extensive cancer ...
Dear Miss Manners: We have a longtime friend, and now neighbor, who cannot consume food orally due to extensive cancer ...
Purpose: An overview of enteral feeding tubes, drug administration techniques, considerations for dosage form selection, common drug interactions with enteral formulas, and methods to minimize ...
A new study measured use of feeding tubes in Canadian nursing home residents, finding similar trends to those in the United ...
Many commercially available options exist for feeding tubes. The two most commonly used types of tubes are curved ball-tipped metal feeding tubes (Jor-Vet, Jorgensen Laboratories, Inc., Loveland ...
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 ...