Title
Bedside Placement of Small-Bowel Feeding Tubes In the Intensive Care Unit
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2003
Publication Title
Critical Care Nurse
First Page
16
Last Page
24
Additional Publication URL
http://ccn.aacnjournals.org
Abstract
Nutritional support for critically ill or injured patients is a routine and vital part of therapy in the ICU. Placement of small-bowel feeding tubes may be costly and time-consuming and requires specialized technical skills. In this article, the authors provide justification for enteral nutrition and describe several techniques for placement of feeding tubes, and present a modified protocol for placing feeding tubes into the small bowel at the bedside without fluoroscopy.
Nutritional support for critically ill or injured patients is a routine and vital part of therapy in the intensive care unit (ICU). Nutritional therapy is recommended to treat and prevent nutrient deficiencies and malnutrition and to improve patients’ outcomes.1 Nutritional support can be delivered enterally via the gastrointestinal system or parenterally with total parenteral nutrition (TPN).
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Recommended Citation
Powers, Jan; Chance, Rick; Bortenschlager, Lawrence; Hottenstein, Jama; Bobel, Karen; Gervasio, Jane; Rodman, George H. Jr.; and McNees, Tom Stone, "Bedside Placement of Small-Bowel Feeding Tubes In the Intensive Care Unit" (2003). Scholarship and Professional Work – COPHS. 193.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cophs_papers/193