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1. PEG Residual: risk for aspiration?

   sjoubert001 replied to sjoubert001's topic in General Nursing

   There was no order saying to hold feeding if there was x amount of residual, I found that kind of odd. I dont find that there was much resistance when I aspirated. My instructor told me that it was ok to increase the feeding. I trust her judgement, b...

2. PEG Residual: risk for aspiration?

   sjoubert001 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm a med surge 1 student. I had a patient with a newly placed PEG tube the other day, I check for placement injecting 30 mls of air and listened for the sounds. I also checked for risidual, I pulled out 50 mls of gastric contents. There was an order...