The study also found no association between oral antibiotic usage and health/production benefits in lambs. Risk factors for partial or failure of passive transfer include: Assistance with colostrum ...

[13] Administer medications via the oral route when possible. Determine the enteral feeding tube size (e.g., small bore or large bore), insertion site (e.g., nasal or percutaneous), tip location ...

Many such patients have gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR) and require a fundoplication. A transgastric jejunal tube is an alternative when antireflux surgery fails, or is hazardous or inappropriate.

Jacque Murdoch spent months feeding, caring for and pampering the Suffolk lamb during the spring and summer of 2012. Jacque, now 18, got up at 5 a.m. to pick sweet corn before taking Sarg and ...

2008;65(24):2347-2357. Administer medications via the oral route when possible. Determine the enteral feeding tube size (e.g., small bore or large bore), insertion site (e.g., nasal or ...

Objectives The existing British National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) safety guideline recommends testing the pH of nasogastric (NG) tube aspirates. Feeding is considered safe if a pH of 5.5 or lower ...

Introduction Home jejunostomy tube feeding (JTF) can be used to support patients following oesophago-gastric surgery in order to ameliorate nutritional deficits. Previous studies have explored the ...

"I met a little girl at my daughter's tennis practice, and I noticed that she had a G-tube," Danielak-Revels said. "She was playing and nursing me, I was concerned that she was going to hurt ...

At this stage of the year lamb performance is becoming increasingly dictated by grass quality, with lambs consuming upwards of 1kg grass dry matter daily. As such, it is important that lambs have ...

The sheep know their shepherd – and for many ... that the next Pope continues to fulfil Jesus’ commission to ‘feed my sheep’”. Robert Prevost’s hand is now the one ordained to be ...