Bedside To Place Feeding Tubes: Case Study

The Use of Technology at the Bedside to Place Feeding Tubes

Amy D. Kramer

Point Loma Nazarene University Introduction

Artificial nutritional support is often necessary to enhance the nutritional status of acutely or critically ill patients. Nasogastric and post-pyloric feeding tubes are relied upon to provide the caloric and nutritional support required. There are approximately 1.2 million feeding tubes placed annually in the United States (Koopmann, Kudsk, & Szotkowski, 2011; Krenitsky, 2011). Out of these, it is estimated that approximately 1.9% of feeding tubes are misplaced with complications ranging from pneumothorax, hydrothorax, empyema, pneumonia and death (Krenitsky, 2011; Taylor et al., 2014). Traditional

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