Connected Care Quick Hits

This week’s QuickHit! comes from an Enteral Feeding module that Connected Care provided for home care nurses. During the module, several home care nurses asked about when and how to do routine safety checks of a child's G-tube balloon.

This week’s QuickHit! comes from our community/home care partners who have asked us to confirm what we tell families in hospital about ‘how often to clean and change feeding supplies’ when their child is in home care.

This QuickHit! comes from a home care nurse who consulted Connected Care Live to ask if it is appropriate to mix Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) 3350 with formula and administer it in a continuous enteral feed?

This QuickHit came from a home care nurse who contacted Connected Care to ask for our recommendation on how to treat and monitor this child’s G tube stoma site. This low-profile balloon type tube had been in place for > 8 weeks and was starting to look slightly pink/red, shiny, slightly swollen and wet. This child was comfortable, tolerating feeds and no fever was present.

This QuickHiT was identified through a consult a home care nurse initiated with Connected Care Live regarding a patient that presented to a community hospital emergency department for a dislodged G-tube. This hospital visit became necessary because there was no emergency dislodgment kit present in the child’s home. The kit has the equipment necessary to maintain tract patency when an enteral feeding tube is dislodged accidentally.