hospital stay, reduced need for surgical interventions, improved wound
healing, maintenance of GI function
Enteral nutrition GI access - ✔✔access route described by where it
enters the body and where the tip is located; nasogastric and orogastric
PEG - ✔✔percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
PEG required if you cannot - ✔✔eat, digest or absorb food due to:
esophageal cancer, stroke, major surgery, trauma, burns, anorexia,
inflammation of the pancreas; radiation therapy or IBS
Ligament of Treitz - ✔✔want tube to be below this ligament; want it to
pass the ligament of Treitz
PEG-J - ✔✔Jejunostomy tube, which goes in the jejunum.
selection of feeding tubes - ✔✔If length of estimated feeding time is
greater than 4 weeks, either a gastrostomy or jejunostomy tubes should be
considered
Impaired digestion - ✔✔VITAL
standard formula - ✔✔Jevity
glucose intolerant - ✔✔Glucerna
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