Bolus Feeds For All?
In the hospital, you can get tired of the endless meetings and group decision making. It makes you long for a benevolent dictatorship. So, it was oddly refreshing when a chief decision maker (Let’s call her Dr. T. for short) at my hospital sent an email directing our department to change every patient on tube feeds to bolus feeds.
The Blind Leading the Blind
Recently, I was asked to see a patient with a newly replaced PEG for bolus tube feed recommendations. This patient had a PEG placed one...
A (Functional) Digestive System is a Terrible Thing to Waste
“Patient failed swallow evaluation. Will initiate PPN.” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve come across this phrase or some variation of...
