Clinical Study for UNECE U-168, an Enteral Nutritional Formula for Patients Receiving Long-Term Nasogastric Tube Feeding

Nasogastric tube insertion in adults who require enteral feeding.

This article, part of Nursing Standards clinical skills series, describes the process of inserting a nasogastric tube in adults for enteral feeding. The article discusses patient assessment, choosing which tube to use, positioning and strategies to deal with complications that arise.

Difficult decisions for long-term tube-feeding.

A malfunctioning nasogastric feeding tube.

A critical point of nasogastric feeding tube placement, potentially resulting in an unsafe and/or non-effective operation of the device, is the monitoring of its proper placement into the stomach. A properly obtained and interpreted radiograph is currently recommended to confirm placement. We reported the case of a 68-year-old demented woman referred for complicated dysphagia. A nasogastric tub...

Early jejunal feeding by bedside placement of a nasointestinal tube significantly improves nutritional status and reduces complications in critically ill patients versus enteral nutrition by a nasogastric tube.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Unguided nasojejunal feeding tube insertion success rates are low. Controversy persists about how to safely and efficiently perform enteral nutrition (EN) in critically ill patients. This study explores an innovative blind nasointestinal tube (NIT) insertion method and compares nasogastric and nasointestinal feeding. METHODS Seventy critically ill patients admitted to...

Is looped nasogastric tube feeding more effective than conventional nasogastric tube feeding for dysphagia in acute stroke?

BACKGROUND Dysphagia occurs in up to 50% of patients admitted to hospital with acute strokes with up to 27% remaining by seven days. Up to 8% continue to have swallowing problems six months after their stroke with 1.7% still requiring enteral feeding. Nasogastric tubes (NGT) are the most commonly used method for providing enteral nutrition in early stroke, however they are easily and frequently...