PEG feeds

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Dont know if anyone will understand what I mean here but I give it a try! When priming the tube for PEG feeds (enteral feeding) do you use the machine or gravity? I have always hung the bag up, opened the valve and let the feed flow through to the end of the tube before hooking it up to the machine for delivery as that is how I was taught and every other home has worked it. In my new home, they have been told to attach the bag of feed to the tubing and attach to the machine on a high flow rate to prime the tube with feed. Their way takes way longer than my own but apparently they do it via the machine because the manager told them it was quicker???:uhoh3:

That's the type of tubing I'm familiar with-we just put the chamber in the pump and then hold the tubing down to stretch it open...

That's what I do.

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