Transcription of Feeding Tube Irrigation: Performing PRACTICE
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NURSING Feeding Tube irrigation : Performing PRACTICE &. SKILL What is the Procedure for Feeding Tube irrigation ? Feeding tube (FT) is the general term used for a tube placed in the gastrointestinal (GI). tract for the purpose of delivering enteral nutrition (EN), hydration, or medication What: FT irrigation , also known as flushing the FT, is a procedure that clears the internal lumen of residue to maintain or restore patency when the intraluminal pathway becomes occluded by medication or enteral Feeding solution. The purpose of this paper is to provide detailed information about Performing FT irrigation . For more information about FTs, see the series of Nursing PRACTICE & Skill papers about FTs, particularly Nursing PRACTICE & Skill Enteral Feeding : an Overview How: Typically, FT irrigation is a routine procedure that involves flushing a patient's FT.
›Despite the publication in 2009 of evidence-based guidelines for safe administration of medication through enteral FTs by the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.) and A.S.P.E.N. Practice Recommendations, surveys
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