The Challenge of Feeding Tubes Hospice services will not be denied to a patient who already has a feeding tube in place. The hospice team will work closely with the patient, family, and caregiver to decide whether to continue to use the tube. While a feeding tube technically...
If a gas was used as the permeating fluid, the compressibility of the gas has to be accounted for. This can be done by combining the ideal gas equation and Eqn. (6), with kl replaced by kg. The resulting equation is (7)Q=kgAΔPpbarmLP where kg is the gas permeability, pbar ...