I wonder how fast the ingest -> per cycle is compared to going out the back door. Wouldn’t we know this with coma patients? Or do they get feeding tube smoothies?
With regards to coma patients or patients otherwise unable to eat for themselves, they will commonly have a feeding tube placed either into their stomach or just past their stomach at the start of the small intestines. Enteral nutrition or “tube feeds” are then usually run 24hrs a day. Lower rates are easier to tolerate. For people that are otherwise active but for a given reason cannot swallow (people who have had a stroke for example), tube feeds can be run faster and intermittently to give them more freedom to move about through the day.
I wonder how fast the ingest -> per cycle is compared to going out the back door. Wouldn’t we know this with coma patients? Or do they get feeding tube smoothies?
With regards to coma patients or patients otherwise unable to eat for themselves, they will commonly have a feeding tube placed either into their stomach or just past their stomach at the start of the small intestines. Enteral nutrition or “tube feeds” are then usually run 24hrs a day. Lower rates are easier to tolerate. For people that are otherwise active but for a given reason cannot swallow (people who have had a stroke for example), tube feeds can be run faster and intermittently to give them more freedom to move about through the day.
Thanks for the information, this was interesting