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Certain medications like Phenytoin, calcium supplemets, PPI, oral antivitamine K, prokinetic agents, thyroid hormones when given through enteral tube, entral feeding shall be stopped 30 minutes to 1 hour before and after administration. If your patient has a combination of drugs that needs stopping of feeding, your patient will end up by loosing about 6 and more hours of enteral feeding.
Weird. Perhaps I haven't had someone on a med that required stopping. Is it to make sure they take it on an empty stomach? Bolus feedings or increasing the rate over the day makes sense, I would think. Really, if this is inpatient management, a dietitian and pharmacy need to get involved and sort it out.
Issa_mohamad
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Hello,
Medications by enteral tube!..
The EB application of this practice is challenging. Nurses in our country perceive it as time wasting and unpractical. Any methods to improve the application of this practice?
Thank you