Day 282 - Farrell Bag & G-tube output
Friday, October 8th, 2021 The only big change we noticed is that James' G-tube is having major output. The erythromycin is supposed to help with this. 🤷🏻♀️ He is very sensitive to a large quantity in his stomach. You can tell when he's having reflux. 99% of the time if James is upset there is something wrong. Sometimes he needs to be manually vented with a 50 ml syringe to release a build up of air (the ventilator causes this). Other times it's just simply lowering the Farrell bag so that his stomach can drain. Most people do not use the Farrell bag like we do. They just have it connected to the feed. In Jamesy's case his G-tube is being vented 24/7 (exit only) to this bag, whereas his J-tube is being fed 24/7 (entrance only), as well as meds. Those that have just a G-tube can be fed and vented at the same time. The FARRELL* Valve System is a closed reservoir system intended to allow the evacuation of excess gas from patients utilizing an enteral device. The bag i...