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.

Handbook Of Drug Administration Via Enteral Feeding Tubes

Medical Books

White, Rebecca

Bradnam, Vicky

Nursing

Pharmaceutical Press

This evidence-based text fills a gap in the market for detailed information on drungs administered via enternal feeding tubes. The only publication to bring together into one resource the legal, ethical, pharmaceutical and practical issues surrounding the administration of drugs using this method. Includes 50 updated momographs and 30 new monographs and the initial ten chapters have also been revised and updated.

Handbook of Drug Administration Via Enteral Feeding Tubes

Pharmacology

Pharmaceutical Pr

The Handbook of Drug Administration via Enteral Feeding Tubes furnishes you with the background knowledge to inform clinical decision making as well as providing over 400 drug monographs.It provides an authoritative and practical guide to the safe administration of medicines via enteral feeding tubes.

Handbook of Drug Administration via Enteral Feeding Tubes

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