We have covered quite a bit of information on home enteral feeding. Our emphasis has been on patient and caregiver management of tube feeding, but we have also covered some basics, such as indications for tube feeding in the home setting, nutritional needs and formula selection, and tube placement. We placed an emphasis on patient and caregiver education and training, which can reduce risk and improve the success of home enteral nutrition, while also covering complications and briefing touching on resources which are available to the caregiver for help. Careful baseline evaluation and close monitoring by the team, including the physician, homecare personnel, the patient and their caregivers can give patients their best opportunity to return to as active and productive a life as possible.

That concludes our presentation. If you would like continuing education credit, you will need to complete the course evaluation and post-test. The organizations that provide this course’s continuing education accreditations, and your credits for this course, require each of you to fill out a course evaluation and to pass the post-test with eight or more correct answers in order to receive CE credit.