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Frequency of aspirating gastric tubes for patients receiving enteral nutrition in the ICU: a randomized controlled trial.
JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr
September 2014
Intensive Care Unit, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia School of Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia.
Background: Enteral nutrition (EN) tolerance is often monitored by aspirating stomach contents by syringe at prescribed intervals. No studies have been conducted to assess the most appropriate time interval for aspirating gastric tubes. We compared gastric tube aspirations every 4 hours (usual care) with a variable regimen (up to every 8 hours aspirations).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReducing interruptions to continuous enteral nutrition in the intensive care unit: a comparative study.
J Clin Nurs
October 2013
Discipline of Emergency Medicine (M516), School of Primary, Aboriginal and Rural Health Care (SPARHC), The University of Western Australia and Research Fellow, ICU Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, WA, Australia.
Aims And Objectives: To develop and test strategies to reduce interruptions to enteral feeding to improve practice and promote attainment of nutritional goals.
Background: Enteral nutrition is preferred for feeding patients in the intensive care unit who are unable to have oral nutrition. Interruption to feeding is likely to be a major contributor to patients not receiving their prescribed nutrition goals.