Nasoenteral feeding tube placement: indications and nurse skills
| Autor: | DF Moura, PE Almeida, Marcelino de Souza Durão, Scpl Shiramizo, Ofp Santos, LR Guastelli |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Nursing staff medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Endoscopy Accidental Poster Presentation Emergency medicine medicine Direct vision Anxiety Medical nutrition therapy medicine.symptom Intensive care medicine business Feeding tube |
| Zdroj: | Critical Care |
| ISSN: | 1364-8535 |
| Popis: | Nutrition therapy (NT) is a powerful tool to assist the patients' nutritional needs mainly in the ICU, where the patients usually have high energy expenditures. The route mostly used for NT is the nasoenteral feeding tube (NFT), being easier and with lower costs. It can be accomplished by the nursing staff under direct vision by the nasal route (after training) or through endoscopy. The nasoenteral insertion is not free from complications, and these can be classified as: mechanics (obstruction of the probe, accidental exit, migration of the tube), infectious and psychological (anxiety, depression). The NFT is suitable for small and medium periods of NT (about 6 weeks). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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