A comprehensive resource on how to safely and effectively care for tube-fed patients of all ages. The new edition includes vital new chapters on:
- Preparing, labeling, and dispensing enteral nutrition
- Adult and Pediatric/infant formulas
- ENFit® devices for tube feeding and enteral medication administration
Updated and expanded information on:
- The latest ASPEN safe practices for enteral nutrition
- Nutrition assessment, with the characteristics of malnutrition in adult and pediatric patients
- In-home care
- Use of blenderized tube feedings
- Best-practices based on ASPEN’s clinical guidelines, consensus recommendations, and other resources.
Watch Interview with Co-editor, Ainsley Malone
Why ASPEN recommends this resource:
Best-practices format, multidisciplinary perspective, and training expertise offers something for everyone—from the novice to the advanced practitioner.
Easy-to-follow clinical information.
Coverage of a wide variety of practical tools.
Evidence-based, referenced content.
Reviews
For all those clinicians who have read practice guidelines and thought, “Just tell me what to do,” this book answers those questions. It is not quite a pocket guide, not quite a textbook, and not quite a set of guidelines, but instead spans the gap between all three.—Read full review fromLeah Hoffman, PhD, RD/LD, CNSC in Practical Gastro here.
Awarded 5 stars as an “Exceptional” medical title by Doody’s Review Service!
Editors
Ainsley Malone, MS, RD, CNSC, FAND, FASPEN; Liesje Nieman Carney, RD, CSP, LDN; Amy Long Carrera, MS, RD, CNSC, CWCMS; and Andrew Mays, PharmD, BCNSP, CNSC
Publisher: ASPEN │ISBN: 978-1-889622-39-2 │ Copyright: 2019 │ Pages: 465 │ Format: Spiralbound
This title is also available as a bundle (print + eBook) or eBook only and can also be purchased as a package with the Parenteral and Fluids handbooks.
| eBook | Bundle | ||
| Member | $65.99 | $56.99 | $75.99 |
| Non-member | $87.99 | $74.99 | $101.99 |