Citing an increase in the use of enteral feeding tubes for short- and long-term feeding in both primary and secondary care due to heightened awareness of the importance of adequate nutritional intake, this updated third edition, written by practitioners for practitioners, is a comprehensive guide which provides information to support safe and effective prescribing and the administering of drugs via enteral feeding tubes. Eleven chapters precede the alphabetical listing of drug monographs. They are: introduction; types of enteral feeding tube; flushing enteral feeding tubes; restoring and maintaining patency of enteral feeding tubes; drug therapy review; choice of medication formulation; the legal and professional consequences of administering drugs via enteral feeding tubes; health and safety and clinical risk management; syringes and ports; defining interactions; medicines optimization. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)