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How much bolus can you feed a person with a g-tube feeding at one time?
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Advantages of bolus feeding via gastrostomy tube in children?
Gastrostomy tubes are inserted for people that can not get adequate nutrition through oral means. The advantage of a bolus feed is the child does not have to be continuously hooked up to the feed, and can sleep through the night without worrying about missing a feed by the tube leaking.
How do you feed a person on a feeding tube?
humm... just a wild guess on a feeding tube?
What is bolus tube feeding?
Bolus feeding is an intermittent feeding most similar to eating a periodic meal. It would be like receiving a dose, then waiting a certain number of hours and taking another dose. Common methods of delivery for an intermittent dose may be to fill a large syringe or bag like container hooked up to the feeding tube and just letting it drain in over a short period of time. This is called bolus or gravity feeding. Some people will use the term Bolus to differentiate between gravity feeding methods. A bolus would be if a syringe or small bag were filled with formula and allowed to drain in without restriction. Using a bag with tubing attached would and restricting the flow with the roller clamp can be referred to as a gravity feed. Some may choose the differentiation because a gravity feed can be done slowly by adjusting a roller clamp on the tubing to create a slower flow rate so bolus could refer to fast and gravity to slow. I'm sure there is clinical protocol to say exactly which means which but in my 10 years experience I've heard clinican, doctor, dietitian, and patients use the terms in many differentiating ways.
What is enteral feeding?
Enteral feeding is used to feed patients who can't feed themselves or swallow. A nasogastric tube (tube passed through the nose and down to the throat and to the stomach) allows food to be put into a person without having them swallow.
What is the present tense for will feed?
'Is feeding' is the present tense of 'will feed'.
What is the present participle of feed?
The present participle of feed is feeding.
How do you feed a comatose patient?
Can be by Enteral feeding (NGT feeding , PEG or PEJ)
What is it called when you feed your pets?
Feeding your pets.
What is the grassland feeding relationship?
Breast feed??
What is mode of feeding?
Mode of feeding is how you would be fed should you not be able to feed yourself. Feeding tube, intravenous, etc.
What do you do if your cat if being feed by someone esle and you think that why he not comig home?
kick the person whos feeding your cat then grab your cat and RUN!
If you help hand feed a 3 day old parakeet will the mom still feed it as well?
If the mother was feeding it in the first place, then it should keep on feeding it =)
