What is it about?
this article is centered around a patient and the nutrition professionals engaged in different elements of the care package to ensure safe discharge to a nursing home with a fine bore nasogastric tube. who will put the tube in if it falls out. Nursing Home staff ensuring daily tube safety Ongoing support Home discharge pack devised to help ensure safety
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Why is it important?
In this climate of high capacity turnover, it is important to explore as many avenues and options for alternative feeding, before using the feed for comfort route.
Perspectives
Parenteral nutrition at home, balloon gastrostomy, PEG and Jejunal extension and jejunal tubes all have a use, but so does the fine bore NGT if it can be used safely. The NGT is used frequently and for long periods of time in paediatrics, so why should we not keep it as an option for adult patients.
trish williams
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This page is a summary of: Nasogastric tube feeding: a safe option for patients?, British Journal of Community Nursing, July 2016, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjcn.2016.21.sup7.s28.
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