Jan 9, 2020 | Bench Study
Enteral nutrition (EN) is provided for patients that have a functioning lower gastrointestinal (GI) tract but are unable to orally ingest nutrients and medication and are at risk for malnutrition.[1] Feeding tubes (Tubes) provide these patients essential nutrition,...
Sep 30, 2019 | Bench Study
Many people think feeding tubes are merely used to deliver nutrition (i.e., feeding formula), however, they deliver life-sustaining medications too – it’s no wonder they tend to clog. At Actuated Medical, Inc., we developed the TubeClear System to keep enteral...
Mar 29, 2019 | Bench Study
Enteral access devices (EADs; feeding tubes) provide vital nutrition, medication, and hydration to more than seven million patients annually [1]. Interruptions to the delivery of enteral therapy has been found to increase the patient’s caloric deficit...
Dec 1, 2015 | Bench Study
Small bore feeding tubes are used to provide essential nutrition and medication to patients at risk of malnutrition and dehydration due to an inability to ingest orally (1). Clogging is one of the most frequent mechanical complications of feeding tubes (2,3). Tubes...
Dec 1, 2015 | Bench Study
Individuals unable to ingest nutrition and/or medication orally for various causes, often become dependent on enteral nutrition as a life-saving mechanism (1). However, due to daily administration of feeding formula and/or medication, as well as other unknown causes,...
Nov 26, 2015 | Bench Study
Small bore feeding tubes are used to provide essential nutrition and medication to patients at risk of malnutrition and dehydration due to an inability to ingest orally (1). Clogging is one of the most frequent mechanical complications of feeding tubes (2,3). Tubes...
