Safe practices for enteral nutrition in critically ill patients.
Promoting patient safety in the enterally fed critically ill patient is dependent on nursing surveillance and recognition of potential areas of patient harm and medical errors. Identifying areas for potential human error, administrative and organizational conditions that are conducive to error, and the patient's own tolerance to EN need to be recognized by the critical care nurse if the risk for EN complications is to be minimized.
Guenter
Peggi
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Clinical Practice, Advocacy, and Research Affairs, American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, 8630 Fenton Street, Suite 412 Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA. peggig@aspen.nutr.org
D003422:Critical Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016638:Critical Illness / Q000628:therapy; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D004750:Enteral Nutrition / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000451:nursing; D005506:Food Contamination / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D007441:Intubation, Gastrointestinal / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000451:nursing; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D010355:Patient Identification Systems; D018579:Patient Selection; D011015:Pneumonia, Aspiration / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011356:Product Labeling; D012307:Risk Factors