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Handbook of Drug Administration Via Enteral Feeding Tubes
Author(s): Rebecca White (Author), Vicky Bradnam (Author)
- Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press
- Publication Date: 24 Nov. 2006
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 416 pages
- ISBN-10: 0853696489
- ISBN-13: 9780853696483
Book Description
The increase in awareness of the importance of adequate nutritional intake has increased the use of enteral feeding tubes for both short and long term feeding in both primary and secondary care. An enteral feeding tube provides a means of maintaining nutritional intake when there is limited access to the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Finding a suitable drug formulation for administration to a patient with limited GI access can be difficult. Although parenteral administration can be used and often guarantees 100 per cent absorption, repeated intravenous, subcutaneous or intramuscular injections are associated with complications and are not suitable for long-term use. There are also other routes that can be considered such as transdermal, buccal, rectal or topical but the drugs available in these preparations are limited. In these patients the feeding tube is often the only means of enteral access and increasingly is being used as a route for drug administration. However, their use for the administration of drugs may induce formula intolerance, or result in less than optimal drug absorption. This handbook is designed to provide all the necessary guidance on the safe administration of medicines via this route in one resource.
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
An enteral feeding tube provides a means of maintaining nutritionalintake when there is limited access to the gastrointestinal tract. Theuse of enteral feeding tubes has increased for both short and longterm feeding in both primary and secondary care due to the increase inawareness of the importance of adequate nutritional intake.Handbook of Drug Administration via Enteral Feeding Tubes is a practicalguide to the safe administration of medicines via enteral feeding tubes.Ten chapters provide the background knowledge to inform clinicaldecisions, and the accompanying 344 monographs contain guidance onthe safe administration of specific drugs and formulations.Contents include: types of enteral feeding tubes, tube flushing, restoringand maintaining patency, drug therapy review, medication formulationchoice, unlicensed medication use, health and safety and interactions.Handbook of Drug Administration via Enteral Feeding Tubes is an essentialguide for pharmacists, doctors, nurses, dieticians, and also for nursinghomes and hospices.Rebecca White is Lead Pharmacist, Nutrition and Surgery,Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, UK.Victoria Bradnam is Chief Pharmacist, Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust,Kent, UK.
