Often, family members come home from the hospital with Tubes, Catheters, and Drains in place for a caregiver to manage. However, knowing what to do after discharge can be confusing. Learn more through viewing videos, step-by-step instructions, and tips for providing care in the posts provided for caregivers.
Most of these resources were produced for hospital staff training and showed the actors using sterile techniques. In your home, you don’t have to use sterile gloves and equipment; however, if you can, it helps prevent infection even more. The closer to sterile technique you can do, the better. If you cannot afford sterile gloves, do excellent clean technique handwashing. Remember, you are introducing germs into your body when you put anything in it that is not sterile. Therefore, you want it as clean as possible because you never know what has walked into the door with you from off the street.
Three Ways to Perform Surgery The most common type of feeding tube is the gastrostomy (G) tube. A surgeon places a G-tube through the abdominal wall into the stomach. There are three options for G-tube surgery:1. Inserting the G-tube surgically through small incisions using a laparoscope.2. Insert the G-tube using a larger open incision through […]
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Inserting an NG Tube Help your family member to sit up or raise the head of their bed to at least 30 degrees. Place some protective towels around them if the insertion process stimulates their gag reflex, and they vomit or spit up. Choose which nostril to use by evaluating for tenderness, previous injury, or
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Tube Feedings for Eating Disorders (Focus on Pediatrics) If you are the parent of a child struggling to eat and not gaining weight, your physician may have warned that the next step to prevent malnutrition is to insert a gastric tube for tube feedings. When tube feedings begin, a family caregiver learns to insert a
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Videos Related to Tube Feedings Procedure for Nasogastric Insertion Tulane Center for Advanced Medical Simulation and Team Training Published on Aug 20, 2018, Simple steps for inserting an NG tube ******************************************** Jejunostomy Feeding Instruction Published on Aug 7, 2017, an instructional video illustrating how to properly use your jejunal (J) tube pump. ******************************************** Unclogging a
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