Patients with functional gastrointestinal tract who are unable to meet their nutritional
requirements may benefit from the use of enteral nutrition via feeding tubes which could be …

This article discusses the use of enteral nutrition in the management of stroke. Stroke is a
major source of disability, including dysphagia. The clinical manifestation of swallowing …

Objectives: To determine the association between home enteral nutrition (HEN)
administration modality and its complications in patients. Methods: This is a prospective …

Background The main goal of enteral nutrition (EN) is to manage malnutrition in order to
improve clinical outcomes. However, EN may increase the risks of vomiting or aspiration …

Background Monitoring gastric residual volume has been a common practice in intensive
care patients receiving enteral feeding worldwide. Recent studies though, have challenged …

This systematic review explores the frequency of complications associated with nasogastric
tube (NGT) placement in patients with acute stroke. The unique condition of the dysphasic …

Neurogenic dysphagia is described as dysphagia or dysfunction of the swallowing
mechanism in those patients who have suffered neurologic insult or disease. Such diseases …

Background Enteral nutrition support plays a key role in minimizing malnutrition in critically-
ill patients, and its provision is originally a nurse's responsibility. Thus, nurses need to have …

Objective This study aims to examine the characteristics of dysphagia in stroke patients with
different lesion sites and explore the factors that impact the duration of nasogastric tube after …

Enteral feedings deliver nourishment through a tube directly into the GI tract. They're ordered
for patients with a functioning GI tract who can't ingest enough nutrition orally to meet their …