Aspen Enteral Nutrition Handbook

1. Nutrition Screening, Assessment, and Care Plan Development
2. Overview of Enteral Nutrition and Patient Selection
3. Enteral Access Devices
4. Enteral Formulas for Adult Patients
5. Enteral Formulas for Pediatric Patients
6. Enteral Nutrition Orders
7. Preparation, Labeling, and Dispensing of Enteral Nutrition
8. Administration and Monitoring of Enteral Nutrition
9. Complications of Enteral Nutrition
10. Medication Administration with Enteral Nutrition
11. Home Enteral Nutrition

A comprehensive resource on how to safely and effectively care for tube-fed patients of all ages. The new edition includes vital new chapters on

• Preparing, labeling, and dispensing enteral nutrition
• Adult and Pediatric/infant formulas
• ENFit® devices for tube feeding and enteral medication administration

Updated and expanded information on

• The latest ASPEN safe practices for enteral nutrition
• Nutrition assessment, with the characteristics of malnutrition in adult and pediatric patients
• In-home care
• Use of blenderized tube feedings
• Best-practices based on ASPEN’s clinical guidelines, consensus recommendations, and other resources

Editors: Ainsley Malone, MS, RD, CNSC, FAND, FASPEN; Liesje Nieman Carney, RD, CSP, LDN; Amy Long Carrera, MS, RD, CNSC, CWCMS; and Andrew Mays, PharmD, BCNSP, CNSC