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Comparing Options for Clearing Clogged Feeding Tubes
No one wants a clogged feeding tube. They impact the patient’s ability to receive adequate nutrition and keep medication on schedule.[1] If the clog cannot be cleared, the tube is replaced. Tube replacement can be a painful, risky, and costly procedure that can...
Prophylactic use of the TubeClear system reduces feeding tube material buildup and enables optimal enteral nutrition delivery.
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,...
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Value of nutrition support – Tuesday Tube Facts
Did you know...? Delivery of nutrition support to patients at nutrition risk could save the Medicare program up to $580 million per year by shortening the length of stay and complication avoidance.[1]References: Tyler, R., Barrocas, A., Guenter, P., Araujo Torres, K.,...
Uncertainty in Literature about Enteral Nutrition – Tuesday Tube Facts
Did you know...? Uncertainty in the literature about feeding tube choices, practices, and transitions requires clinicians to draw on incomplete and sometimes conflicting evidence, personal experience, economic realities, and compassion to deliver supportive...
EN for Patients with Head and Neck Cancer – Tuesday Tube Facts
Did you know...? Head & neck cancer and the treatment modalities have significant nutritional impacts. Patients often need nutrition support which can include enteral nutrition. The type of feeding tube placed, when the EN begins, and the type of formula can all...
EN-related readmissions – Tuesday Tube Facts
Did you know...? Among EN-related readmissions, 44.6% (33/72) documented enteral access device-related issues, 40.5% (30/74) cited symptoms attributed to EN, and 14.9% (11/74) attributed sodium imbalance from dehydration.[1]References: Palchaudhuri, S, Mehta,...
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Syringe Force on Clogged Feeding Tubes
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 therapy...
Proactive Use of the TubeClear System Assists Optimum Therapy Delivery
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...
TubeClear System Clears Clogged Tubes: Various Compounds
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...
TubeClear System Clears Clogged Tubes: NE, G, J Tubes
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,...
TubeClear System Clears Clogged Tubes at Bedside: Clinical Case Study
Feeding tubes are used to deliver enteral nutrition to patients that are unable to ingest nutrients and medications orally and therefore are at risk of malnutrition and dehydration (1). Unfortunately, the long and narrow inner lumens of small bore feeding tubes used...
TubeClear System Clears Clogged NE Tubes: Benchtop 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...