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 ...

Nearly 450,000 Americans with swallowing or digestive problems manage tube feedings — also called home enteral nutrition — on their own. Some have temporary feeding tubes, while others leave the ...

For the treatment of colonic ileus, delaying feeding until after return of bowel function does not appear necessary. Based on a Cochrane review with limited evidence, early feeding after GI surgery ...

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 variety of access routes into the gastrointestinal tract and a range of feeding tube types are used for enteral feeding. This article is a practical guide and comes with a self-assessment enabling ...