Paediatric intensive care nurses' decision ‐making around gastric residual volume measurement

ConclusionsPICU nurses' decision‐making surrounding initiating and withholding enteral feeds and determining ‘feed tolerance’ remains heavily based on GRV. PICU nurses' have significant fears around patient harm if they do not measure GRV routinely. Relevance to clinical practiceThis nursing practice is likely to be one of the factors that impair the delivery of enteral nutrition in critically ill children, and as such, its validity and usefulness needs to be challenged and studied in future research.

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Source: Nursing in Critical Care - June 22, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Lyvonne N Tume, Lynne Latten, Lindsay Kenworthy Tags: Research Source Type: research