Enteral Feeding Flashcards
Ready-to-use
nutritionally complete formulation
- can be used alone and provides total needs
Ready-to-use
modular formulation
- provides different forms of individual nutrients
Ready-to-use
combine formulation
- meets the therapeutic needs
This type of feeding may be prepared from regular foods
Tube Feedings
This type of feeding is fiber-free and high in cholesterol, fat, and sugar. It is milk-based.
Standard Tube Feeding
This consists of soft diet allowances which can be blenderized easily
Blenderized Tube Feeding
What type of complication is a Nasopharyngeal irritation?
Mechanical
What type of complciation is a Luminal Obstruction?
mechanical
What type of complication is a Mucosal erosion?
Mechanical
What type of complication is a Tube Displacement?
Mechanical
What type of complication is Aspiration?
mechanical
What type of complication is cramping/distention?
Gastrointestinal
What type of complication is vomiting/diarrhea?
Gastrointestinal
What type of complication is constipation?
Gastrointestinal
What type of complication is hypertonic dehydration?
Metabolic
What occurs when you lose too much water while keeping to much salt?
Hypertonic dehydration
What type of complication is glucose intolerance?
Metabolic
What type of complication is Cardiac Failure?
Metabolic
What type of complication is Renal Failure?
Metabolic
What type of complication is Hepatic Encephalopathy?
Metabolic
What Enteral Feeding Route (EFR) passes through the nose to the stomach?
Nasogastric
What EFR passes through the nose to the duodenum?
Nasoduodenal tube
What EFR passes through the nose to the jejunum?
Nasojejunal
What EFR is used in patients with head and neck cancer?
Esophagostomy
What EFR passes through the side of the abdomen to the stomach?
Gastrostomy or Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)
What EFR passes through the side of the abdomen to the jejunum?
Jejunostomy or Percutaneous Endoscopic Jejunostomy (PEJ)
This Parenteral Feeding Route is recommended for patients with mild to moderate nutritional deficiency
Peripheral Vein Route
This Parenteral Feeding Route is a long term nutritional support of 2 weeks for px. who cannot be fed through GIT
Parenteral Hyperalimentation (IVH)
What type of Parenteral Nutrition supplies only part of daily nutritional requirements and uses dextrose or amino acid solutions?
Partial Parenteral Nutrition
What type of Parenteral Nutrition uses a central line?
Total Parenteral Nutrition (Hyperalimentation)
