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When caring for a patient receiving enteral feelings the nurse must assess residual volume with what frequency?
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What would you call by way of the intestines in a medical context?
enteral
Is tube feeding enteral or parental nutrition?
Tube feeding is an example of Enteral nutrition
What is residual volume in gastric feedings?
It is the measurement used for gut motility. It is checked every 4 to 6 hours in enteral nutrition patients. If the RV is between 200 and 500 ml, measures are taken to prevent aspiration.
What categories of medications is not identified as a high-alert class of drug antithrombotid drugs enteral nutrition products antiarrhythrnic drugs chemotherapeutic agents?
enteral nutrition product
What benefit does enteral nutrition procedures provide to pancreatectomy patients?
This procedure, called enteral nutrition, maintains the patient's nutrition if the stomach is slow to recover normal function.
What are the differences between enteral and parentral routes of administration?
Enteral is for medication taken orally or in suppositories. It takes more time and (generally) a higher dose to get the same result that parenteral route (intraveinous, subcutaneous, etc).
How do you feed a comatose patient?
Can be by Enteral feeding (NGT feeding , PEG or PEJ)
What is the term Pertaining to the small intestine?
Enteral means pertaining to the small intestine.
What are the effects of a bullet being left in your leg?
Well enteral bleeding, blood cancer, and possible death could be an effect but if I were to get shot I would want it to be in one of my arms or legs because that is farthest from any enteral organs
What kinds of tablets cannot be crushed for enteral feeding?
Enteric-coated products, buccal tablets, sublingual tablets, carcinogenic products, tertogenic products, cytotoxics, and extended-release drugs cannot be crushed for enteral feeding.
What are the disadvtanges of using small-bore tubes over large-bore tubes in enteral feeding?
Due to its small lumen diameter, small-bored tubes are more likely to be clogged by medicatoins or thick enteral nutrition formulations.
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.
