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...
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...