Nutritional Support: Enteral Feedings and Tube Feedings through Gastrointestinal Tract, Lab Reports of Nutrition

Download Nutritional Support: Enteral Feedings and Tube Feedings through Gastrointestinal Tract and more Lab Reports Nutrition in PDF only on Docsity!

NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT

NUTRITION SUPPORT

The delivery of nutrients using a feeding tube or intravenous infusions (can meet a patient’s nutritional needs)

PARENTERAL NUTRITION

It provides nutrients intravenously to patients who do not have sufficient GI function to handle enteral feedings.

PARENTERAL NUTRITION

PAR – BESIDE

ENTERO - INTESTINE

PATIENT WITH POOR APPETITE?

MANAGE? IMPROVE THEIR DIETS?

EXAMPLE OF ORAL SUPPLEMENTS?

DEFINITION OF TERMS

• Orogastric Tube (OGT) - Thin soft tube passed through a child’s mouth, through the oropharynx, through the oesophagus and into the stomach

DEFINITION OF TERMS

• Nasogastric Tube (NGT) – Thin soft tube passed through a child’s nose, down the back of the throat, through the esophagus and into the stomach.

DEFINITION OF TERMS

• Temporary balloon device (G-Tube) – a gastrostomy tube

DEFINITION OF TERMS

• Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube (PEG)
  • a gastrostomy tube which is held in place with an internal fixator

DEFINITION OF TERMS

• Gastric Residual Volume (GRV’s) – the amount of fluid aspirated from the stomach via an enteral tube to monitor gastric emptying, tolerance to enteral feeding and abdominal decompression. Once removed it may be returned to the patient or discarded.

DEFINITION OF TERMS

• Trans-Anastomotic Tube (TAT tube) - Utilized after surgery to repair esophageal atresia (absence or abnormal narrowing of an opening or passage in the body) inserted by surgeons in the Neonatal patient population.

CONTRAINDICATIONS

• severe GI bleeding
• high-output fistulas
• intractable vomiting or diarrhea
• severe malabsorption
• if the expected need for nutrition support is less than 5 to 7 days in a malnourished patient
• if the expected need for nutrition support is less than 7 to 9 days in an adequately nourished patient

ROUTES

https://www.google.com/search?q=gastrointestinal+access+feeding&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwj-0aaS3Y_zAhWyNKYKHa_mCmEQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=gastrointestinal+access+feeding&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzoECAAQQzoFCAAQgAQ6CwgAEIAEELEDEIMBOggIABCABBCxAzoICAAQsQMQgwE6BwgAELEDEEM6B ggAEAgQHjoECAAQGFCdgSNYgs4jYKXRI2gAcAB4AIABhwKIAc8nkgEGMC4zMC4xmAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=ZqJJYf6GI7LpmAWvzauIBg&bih=573&biw=1366&client=firefox-b-d#imgrc=H3FaqL8OzoI1VM