Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #109927 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 569 pages

Customer Reviews

Simply the BEST resource book of its type available
As a Pharmacist and as a Care Services Manager responsible for providing pharmaceutical advice to over 70 care homes, this book provides me with an invaluable source of high quality information. Absolutely everything is covered, including the legal and professional requirements. With individual monographs for around 300 drugs, this book is suitable for anyone who has to deal with the prescribing, dispensing, or administration of medications to be administered to patients with PEG or naso-gastric tubes. The information provided for each drug listed is extremely comprehensive and provides guidance and suggestions for the use of appropriate formulations, along with the pros and cons and suggestions for alternative routes of administration. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Expensive? Yes, but definitely worth it.