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animals that swallow their food six letter crossword hint 1st letter P 3rd letter T 5th letter E​

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Enteral feeding is a commonly used form of nutritional supplementation for patients with intestinal failure, both in hospitals and in the community. This article concentrates on the basic principles of enteral feeding, including the physiological effects of feeding into the intestinal tract. It covers the indications for enteral feeding, the different methods of supplying enteral feeds to the gastrointestinal tract, and the potential complications. There is also a discussion of the indications for and practice of home enteral nutrition.

Keywords: Nutrition, enteral feeding, enteral access, complications

Nutrition needs to be supplied to patients by the simplest and most cost-effective means acceptable. Unquestionably, the optimal method for delivering nutrition to a patient with a functioning gastrointestinal tract is by the oral route. Most patients in hospital have a short hospital stay and are managed with hospital food. The 20 to 40% of patients who are undernourished may benefit from supplements of food, liquid feeds, or specific nutrients or micronutrients. For those who cannot eat enough for more than a few days, sip feeds become essential. Sip feeds have been shown to improve nutritional intake, reduce weight loss, and reduce complications in patients after abdominal surgery.1 These benefits have been shown to extend beyond discharge in patients who were initially malnourished.2 An important observation is that sip feed supplementation does not suppress spontaneous food intake significantly.3

However, for reasons that are discussed here, it is sometimes necessary to provide nutrition to hospitalized patients with a functioning, or partially functioning, gastrointestinal tract by nonoral routes. This is achieved by means of specialized artificial tubes inserted into various parts of the intestine. This article focuses principally on the provision of “tube feeding” to the gastrointestinal tract by the array of nonoral routes.