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Tag Archive: Feeding Tube Awareness Week

Tips for Home Tube Feeding

Important Tips for Home Tube Feeding | Shield HealthCare Nutrition Support

The following tips for home tube feeding are designed to help manage day to day feedings with proper care and guidelines.

Amy Long Carrera, MS, RD, CNSC, CWCMS

Gastric Residuals: Are They Significant?

Typically, standard nursing practice is to stop tube feedings due to gastric residual volume (GRV) that is twice the flow rate. So, a feeding rate of only 40 mL per hour would be held with a measured GRV of 80 mL. The problem with using GRV to evaluate enteral nutrition (EN) tolerance is that feedings… Continue reading Gastric Residuals: Are They Significant?

Amy Long Carrera, MS, RD, CNSC, CWCMS