Sophie Stenson, Rebecca Capener, Julie Barker, Helen Hynes, Edmund Barron, Catherine Shakespeare, Su Brampton-Mortley, Jill Skelton, Laurie Cowell, Gary P Hubbard
Home enteral tube feeding (HEF) has many benefits and is largely safe practice. Some complications have historically required intervention in the acute setting, including traumatic displacement of feeding tubes (i.e. internal bumper/balloon removed intact), and evidence to support the safe replacement of these tubes in the community is lacking. To address this, a service enabling community homecare nurses (CHN) to replace traumatically displaced feeding tubes was designed and evaluated. Adult patients presenting with a traumatically displaced feeding tube over 29 months were included in the service evaluation...
April 2, 2024: British Journal of Community Nursing