Microbial contamination of enteral feeding through oral intake

• In: Posters
• At: Amsterdam (the Netherlands) (2012)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: HPS-P-030
• By: FUKAMIZU, Tomohide (Kagoshima University Hospital, Pharmacy, Kagoshima, Japan)
• Co-author(s): Shibata, Y. (Kagoshima University Hospital, Kagoshima, Japan)
  Shimodozono, Y. (Kagoshima University Hospital, Kagoshima, Japan)
  Ikeda, R. (Kagoshima University Hospital, Kagoshima, Japan)
  Takeda, Y. (Kagoshima University Hospital, Kagoshima, Japan)
  
• Abstract:

  I.BackgroundPatients with malnutrition, who can orally take nutrients, often drink a canned enteral feeding called Ensure liquid. But most of them can not drink a single can of Ensure liquid completly because of anorexia. If it takes long for patients to consume an appropriate volume of Ensure liquid, it may be contaminated by microorganisms

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