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Enteral Feeding Gravity Set – NMD30311

Enteral feeding is the process of feeding a person through an artificial means such as a feeding tube inserted through the nose and down into the stomach. It is used when a person cannot eat or drink orally because they have difficulty swallowing. Enteral feeding can be done through a nasogastric (NG) tube, a jejunostomy tube, or an esophagus feed tube.

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Enteral Feeding Gravity Set

What is Enteral Feeding?

Enteral feeding is the process of feeding a person through an artificial means such as a feeding tube inserted through the nose and down into the stomach. It is used when a person cannot eat or drink orally because they have difficulty swallowing. Enteral feeding can be done through a nasogastric (NG) tube, a jejunostomy tube, or an esophagus feed tube.

How is Enteral Feeding Administered?

Enteral feeding is a type of nutrition that is administered through a tube into the stomach or small intestine. This type of feeding is typically used in cases when a person cannot eat or swallow food. Enteral feeding can be beneficial in cases of chronic malnutrition, severe gastrointestinal disorders, or when medications interfere with digesting food.

Enteral feeding gravity set is a method of supplying nutrients directly into the gastrointestinal tract. This guideline will use this term describe Orogastric, Nasogastric and Gastrostomy tube feeding. A wide range of children may require enteral feeding either for a short or long period of time for a variety of reasons including:
  • Unable to consume adequate nutrients
  • Impaired swallowing/sucking
  • Facial or oesophageal structural abnormalities
  • Anorexia related to a chronic illness
  • Eating disorders
  • Increased nutritional requirements,
  • Congenital anomalies
  • Primary disease management.
Enteral feeding gravity set can be used to:
  • Administer bolus, intermittent feeds and continuous feeds
  • Medication administration
  • Facilitate free drainage and aspiration of the stomach contents
  • Facilitate venting/decompression of the stomach
  • Stent the oesophagus
  • Orogastric Tube (OGT) - Thin soft tube passed through a child’s mouth, through the oropharynx, through the oesophagus and into the stomach
  • Nasogastric Tube (NGT) – Thin soft tube passed through a child’s nose, down the back of the throat, through the oesophagus and into the stomach.
  • Gastrostomy tube - a feeding tube which is inserted endoscopically or surgically through the abdominal wall and directly into the stomach.
  • Temporary balloon device (G-Tube) – a gastrostomy tube
  • Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube (PEG) – a gastrostomy tube which is held in place with an internal fixator
  • Gastrostomy-Button (Mickey-Button™) - skin level button gastrostomy tube inserted into a pre-formed stoma.
  • Gastric Residual Volume (GRV’s) – the amount of fluid aspirated from the stomach via an enteral tube to monitor gastric emptying, tolerance to enteral feeding and abdominal decompression. Once removed it may be returned to the patient or discarded.
  • Trans-Anastomotic Tube (TAT tube) - Utilised after surgery to repair oesophageal atresia inserted by surgeons in the Neonatal patient population.
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