Digestive System
Helping Older People Eat and Drink Safely
How to safely meet the nutritional needs of the older person with swallowing difficulties.
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Changing a Gastrostomy Tube
The range of gastrostomy tubes on the market continues to increase. Tubes vary in size, shape, length, outlet, skin disc, internal bumper, life expectancy and cost. This chapter outlines the various types of tubes and how and when they should be changed.
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Nutritional Assessment and Tube Feeding
This chapter gives an overview of nutritional assessment, selection of formulae, the equipment and methods used for tube feeding, feeding regimens and pumps...
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Mouth Care (in people with gastrostomy)
This chapter discusses the steps involved in assessing a person’s oral health, identifying risk factors and the provision of care to optimise oral health and minimize the development of mouth disorders associated with gastrostomy tubes...
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Digestive System: Oesophagus
This image contextualises the oesophagus in terms of its location within the human body. Further, other key organs in the digestive system are labeled to assist in visualising the oesophagus' location.
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Foods That Build Muscle Tissue
Since muscle tissue is built from amino acids (proteins),
a diet that contains adequate protein is necessary when
trying to build muscles.
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Enteral Feeding in Aged Care
Nurses and carers must ensure that nutritional requirements are met for patients who are unable to eat or swallow oral foods. This chapter covers the skills required to ensure the necessary nutritional needs of a person requiring enteral feeding are met..
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Indications for Tube Feeding
This chapter discusses the swallowing process and factors that affect it, the dangers and management of dysphagia and the indications and contraindications for tube feeding...
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Stomal Care
This chapter outlines the fundamental principles of care required to maintain a healthy gastrostomy stoma and discusses how to identify and treat some of the problems that are commonly associated with stomas...
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Digestive System: Small & Large Intestines
This image is a comprehensively labeled graphic of the digestive system, focusing specifically on the small and large intestines and their location in relation to the rest of the digestive system.
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Digestive System: Accessory Organs of Digestion
This image depicts other equally important organs located near organs of the digestive system. This includes the Pancreas, the Liver and the Sphincter of the Oddi.
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PNS: Antagonistic Functions of the Pancreas
This image indicates the major difference between the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic divisions of the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) in the function of the pancreas. It outlines the different functions the pancreas can perform; as well as how these func
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Nasogastic Tubes
This chapter presents an overview of the indications for using nasogastric tubes and the care of a person with a nasogastric tube. This chapter also highlights the special issues to be considered when tube feeding is provided through a nasogastric tube...
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Living with a Gastrostomy Tube
This chapter describes some of the psychological responses to tube feeding. In addition, a process for assessing psychosocial challenges is outlined to help health care professionals understand and facilitate the person’s adjustment to tube feeding...
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Digestive System: Stomach
This image shows the stomach and specifically indicates the
different parts and layers of the stomach, including their names.
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Digestive System: The Entire System
A most significant image, the entire digestive system is depicted here. Aside from the small and large intestines, the stomach and the oesophagus, other important body parts are also labeled to ensure that the digestive system can be properly located.
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Supersize me: 'Lord of the Fries' Bariatrics and Obesity Management - Part One
The obesity crisis is affecting large numbers of Australians and creating risk factors for chronic disease management.
* As health professionals, are we powerless to help?
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Vomiting and Diarrhoea (children)
The most common cause of vomiting and diarrhoea in children is gastroenteritis. This chapter will concentrate on gastroenteritis - but the chapter also discusses ‘warning’ signs and symptoms of other causes of vomiting and diarrhoea in children...
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Inserting a Gastrostomy Tube
This chapter first discusses care needs before the insertion of a gastronomy tube. The chapter then presents an overview of the procedure for inserting a gastrostomy tube and concludes with a discussion of care needs after the insertion of a tube...
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Care of Gastrostomy Tube
This chapter discusses the common problems encountered when managing gastrostomy tubes and the likely causes of these problems. The chapter also offers suggestions to reduce (or prevent) their occurrence...
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