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Merck Serono Gastroenterology offers an extensive range of high quality enteral feeding tube devices, which are designed not only to meet all your clinical equirements but in addition offer maximum patient comfort, flexibility and simplicity.
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NEWS
11th March 2011NPSA/2011/PSA002
A deadline of the 12th September 2011 means that purchasing policies are to be revised and old stock systematically removed to ensure all nasogastric tubes used for the purpose of feeding are radio-opaque throughout their length and have externally visible length markings. Merck Serono Corflo Fine Bore Feeding Tubes fully comply to this.
Purchasing policies should also be revised and old stock systematically removed to ensure all pH paper is CE marked and intended by the manufacturer to test human gastric aspirate. Merck Serono pH indicator strips are CE marked and intended to be used to test human gastric aspirate. They have 0.5 increments and come in two versions; pH 0-6 and 2-9.
Staff training, competency frameworks and supervision are reviewed to ensure that all healthcare professionals involved with nasogastric tube position checks have been assessed as competent. Competency training should include theoretical and practical learning. An example eModule training tool for x-ray interpretation of nasogastric tube position is available at www.trainingngt.co.uk
