Guided Feeding Tube Placement - A Clinician's Perspective #596361

About 6% of hospitalised patients require invasive nutrition support, mostly tube feeding. Unfortunately, blindly placed tubes commonly cause lung trauma or risk pneumonia by being left in the oesophagus. End-of-procedure tube position checks can't prevent all complications and lead long delays to feed or vital drugs.


Guided tube placement can overcome these problems by showing tube position in real-time. This can pre-empt complications and provide an immediate position check to permit feeding and drugs. Equipment manufacturers provide minimal guidance on techniques to advance a tube and lack detail regarding interpretation of tube position.


'Guided Feeding Tube Placement' overviews alternative methods of placement and their efficacy, guidance equipment and the training required. Most important, this book details evidence-based techniques to place the tube and interpret tube position.