TPN — Transcript
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- 0:06this PowerPoint will be discussing Total
- 0:08pereral Nutrition also referred to as
- 0:13tpn when we're looking at tpn we use it
- 0:16to replace interal intake in patients
- 0:18who can't ingest food nutrients through
- 0:20their GI track this tpn will provide
- 0:23calories protein fatty acids by the
- 0:25intravascular route to support life and
- 0:27it's going to maintain growth and
- 0:29development
- 0:37so who needs tpn tpn is needed in people
- 0:40with severe malnutrition individuals
- 0:43with Burns if they've had GI trauma
- 0:45prolong pancreatitis prolong ptic ilas
- 0:49cancer of the GI tract GI obstruction
- 0:52typically someone who is unable to eat
- 0:55via the GI track for longer than 5 to
- 0:57seven days they need to be considered
- 0:59for TP in this can be given in almost
- 1:02any location anywhere from the Intensive
- 1:04Care Unit Med surge unit long-term care
- 1:06facility or even the
- 1:13home so we use tpn when there is no
- 1:16other nutritional alternative other
- 1:18forms of administering nutrition such as
- 1:21the oral route or gastrointestinal tube
- 1:24need to be initiated first this is very
- 1:26very
- 1:28important
- 1:32so we know poor nutrition means if we
- 1:34have poor nutrition we know that we have
- 1:36poor wound healing we have an increased
- 1:38risk of um infection we have decreased
- 1:41production of white blood cells and red
- 1:43blood cells we have increased edema and
- 1:45skin breakdown and so all of this can go
- 1:48on if a person goes without food for
- 1:51more than five to seven days we need to
- 1:53really be considering our nutritional
- 1:55status of our
- 1:58patient so just some little facts um
- 2:01less than 600 calories per day when this
- 2:04happens a person will break down their
- 2:05own tissue the heart walk and thin
- 2:08you'll have decreased respiratory muscle
- 2:10function organs begin to atrophy we'll
- 2:13start to see decreased alumin production
- 2:16we'll see decreased glar filtration rate
- 2:18and the intestinal Bill decrease in size
- 2:20and numbered so if a person is able to
- 2:23eat but can't eat enough of course again
- 2:26poor nutrition will result um you can
- 2:28see a person that is already it become
- 2:31truly truly more compromised if these
- 2:34things
- 2:36occur so just a little bit of math and
- 2:39there's some note Pages for your
- 2:40enjoyment just to let you know that one
- 2:43liter of D5W only has Believe It or Not
- 2:46170 calories and a lot of us would like
- 2:49to think that it has much
- 2:54more this is an example of a bag of tpn
- 2:58um tpn Solutions have a variety of looks
- 3:00so just be aware of that and that's of
- 3:02course depending on the company that
- 3:04used to package the solution um min mini
- 3:07look like the picture that's on your
- 3:08screen they're usually one liter bag and
- 3:11on the Note Pages you're going to see
- 3:13that um what type of ingredients that a
- 3:17standard tpn formula would contain so
- 3:20everywhere from the amount of aminin
- 3:22it's got a lot of dextr in it some
- 3:24electrolytes some
- 3:26multivitamins now I need you to know
- 3:27that tpn is very very expensive
- 3:29expensive so we want to be careful with
- 3:31this and not let it hang past the
- 3:33expiration date and not let it um
- 3:36actually expire because a a bag of tpn
- 3:39can actually cost several hundred dollar
- 3:42so that that becomes very very important
- 3:44always be sure to check the expiration
- 3:46date on the bag because we don't want to
- 3:48hang one that expired because there's a
- 3:50lot of glucose in it and we know that
- 3:51the glucose the sugar is really a medium
- 3:54for bacterial
- 3:58growth
- 4:04a common additive to tpn is regular
- 4:06insulin youi patients have a very
- 4:09difficult time tolerating this 24-hour
- 4:11day high concentration glucose solution
- 4:14because what happens is the patient's
- 4:15pancreas must continually secrete
- 4:17insulin in order to utilize the glucose
- 4:19in the solution and to keep the blood
- 4:21glucose within normal range if a patient
- 4:24becomes hypoglycemic during the time
- 4:26they're receiving tpn insulin is going
- 4:28to be ordered and be are um and added to
- 4:31the solution in the pharmacy
- 4:32Additionally the patient's going to be
- 4:34placed probably on a sliding skill
- 4:35insulin based on their blood glucose AC
- 4:38Che values if the patient on tpn is NPO
- 4:41and this is fairly typical of patients
- 4:43receiving tpn their blood glucose CHS
- 4:45are usually ordered every six hours
- 4:47instead of before meals and at bedtime
- 4:50they would try to do this as if they
- 4:51were actually
- 4:58eating
- 5:05there is a um great risk for infection
- 5:08so this slide is just basically showing
- 5:10you how tpn is prepared under laminer
- 5:12airflow hood and this is to decrease the
- 5:14chance of contamination because there's
- 5:16very very high risk of infection when
- 5:18you're giving tpn now just for your
- 5:21information there is also a periperal
- 5:23form of Parental nutrition and it is
- 5:25actually called peripheral parental
- 5:27nutrition and or PPN
- 5:30this is used if the patient does not
- 5:32have a central Venus access device and
- 5:34for whatever reason it is and PPN can
- 5:38actually be used through a peripheral IV
- 5:41line and so just want to to let you
- 5:44understand
- 5:55that remember whenever it's possible all
- 5:58efforts should be made um to use the gut
- 6:00for feeding because tpn has a greater
- 6:03risk of complication especially
- 6:05infection over interal feedings and Tube
- 6:10feedings so what are your goals of tpn
- 6:13obviously to improve nutritional status
- 6:15to establish a positive nitrogen balance
- 6:18to preserve muscle mass to promote
- 6:20weight gain and to support healing so
- 6:22just the the basics that that make a lot
- 6:24of sense to
- 6:27you as a Remer we need to give tpn it's
- 6:32it must be administered through a
- 6:33central Venus access device or what we
- 6:35call a cvad um this is just an example
- 6:38of a triple Lumen catheter any of the
- 6:40ports can be used for TPM um the other
- 6:43ports can be used for other medications
- 6:46antibiotics blood products so on and so
- 6:48forth the reason the central line is
- 6:50necessary is because the high osmolarity
- 6:52concentration of the solution if you
- 6:55gave the solution through a pural IV you
- 6:57would um cause irritation in in that
- 6:59line fitis would occur in your patient
- 7:02so very important to remember this
- 7:11component um sometimes tpn is given
- 7:14through a tunnel catheter these
- 7:16catheters are generally placed for
- 7:18long-term use and the patient may even
- 7:19go home with these of course a tunnel
- 7:22catheter is more difficult to insert but
- 7:23less likely to be the source of systemic
- 7:25infection so and these of course can
- 7:27come in double intol as well
- 7:36this is a example of lipids lipids are
- 7:39commonly used as part of the regimen
- 7:42with
- 7:42tpn um if we go back to the former
- 7:45slides and we look at the components of
- 7:48the tpn solution we're going to see that
- 7:51of course something is missing and what
- 7:53is missing is fat we all have to have
- 7:55fat in our not to survive a very long
- 7:58time and what I lipids can do is they
- 8:01can provide approximately one calorie
- 8:03per CC and lipids are the only solution
- 8:06that can be piggybacked into tpn without
- 8:08a specific doctor's order now before
- 8:11hanging the lipids you need to look
- 8:12closely at the solution it should have a
- 8:15homogeneous look it really will look
- 8:18like milk make sure it doesn't have an
- 8:20oily layer on top now you will run the
- 8:23lipids through the secondary line while
- 8:25the tpn primary line is going you want
- 8:28to make sure they're no filters no
- 8:31filters below the lipid drip chamber
- 8:34because if this is so the filter will
- 8:36Clogg always run the solutions
- 8:38concurrent you never want to stop tpn
- 8:41abruptly because hypog hypoglycemia can
- 8:44result and I've got some slides and I'll
- 8:46tell you a little more on that later
- 8:48patients can have an allergic reaction
- 8:50to the lipids so you must always always
- 8:54always monitor for an aaxis when you're
- 8:56administering lipids the lipids may
- 8:58contain sweet beans a SE flower oil and
- 9:01egg yolks all of which we know can cause
- 9:03allergic reactions in certain
- 9:05individuals so what you do is you begin
- 9:08by taking and recording your Baseline
- 9:10bottles you're going to hang the 500 CC
- 9:12bottle of lipids and run the lipids at a
- 9:14rate of one cc per minute which is of
- 9:17course 60 CC's per hour on the infusion
- 9:19pump you want to use a larger filter
- 9:22than normal because the lipid particles
- 9:24are too large and would actually clog in
- 9:27the smaller
- 9:28filter you then you'll check your Vital
- 9:30Signs every 10 to 15 minutes times three
- 9:33and then at the end of 30 minutes uh if
- 9:35vital signs are compared to Baseline you
- 9:37will increase that rate to 83 CC's per
- 9:39hour in a patient that can tolerate this
- 9:42and that solution runs over six hours so
- 9:45um lipids can also run via periperal
- 9:47line and Light
- 9:58tpn
- 10:00now some facilities use a solution that
- 10:02comines the tpn and the lipids and this
- 10:04is a picture where both are in one bag
- 10:08so just kind of to let you understand
- 10:10that philosophy when we mix these
- 10:12together one bag it decreases the chance
- 10:14of bacterial contamination when lipids
- 10:17are piggyback of force into the tpn
- 10:19because anytime you break the IV line
- 10:21you run the risk of
- 10:28contamination
- 10:30just a picture of a three in one mixture
- 10:33being infused note the infusion pump tpn
- 10:36and lipid should always be delivered
- 10:38with an IV pump because we want to
- 10:40maintain a constant drip rate which will
- 10:42help prevent hypoglycemia and
- 10:50hyperium so let's talk about the body's
- 10:52response to the high glucose load let's
- 10:55talk about hypoglycemia when tpn is
- 10:58initiated we're going to do ACU checks
- 11:01at least every six hours for The First
- 11:0348 hours and then depending on the
- 11:05patient response these can be
- 11:07discontinued or may have to be continued
- 11:09and monitored so tpn is going to be
- 11:11given by an infusion pump and we're
- 11:13going to start slowly and we're going to
- 11:15build up to a rate that fits the
- 11:17patient's needs so example tpn usually
- 11:20begins at 50 CC's per hour and then
- 11:23maybe increased to 75 to 100 to 125 and
- 11:28to even 15 D per hour over time some
- 11:31patients of course may never go past 50
- 11:33CC's an hour if they have trouble
- 11:34handling the excess flood volume and
- 11:37then other patients easily tolerate the
- 11:38150 cc per hour what we do by starting
- 11:42slowly is we allow the body to adjust
- 11:44the glucose load so the pancreas can
- 11:46begin to release the appropriate amount
- 11:48of insulin to keep the blood glucose
- 11:50controlled remember the body may have
- 11:53difficulty adjusting to the constant
- 11:54glucose infusion so watch carefully for
- 11:57signs of hypoglycemia such as of course
- 11:59polyura confusion Lethy dehydration on
- 12:03and on and on certainly not everyone
- 12:05becomes hypoglycemic from tpn it is a
- 12:07very common side
- 12:11effect okay we can have an opposite
- 12:13problem with a blood clue POS called
- 12:15hypoglycemia
- 12:18obviously um why does this happen the
- 12:21patient may develop hypoglycemia at the
- 12:22fusion rate suddenly drops so an example
- 12:26might be the pump accidentally gets
- 12:27turned off the ey the infiltrates of
- 12:30course um that can't happen because why
- 12:33IV is not going to infiltrate because
- 12:35you're giving it through a central line
- 12:38or what if we get ready to hang the next
- 12:40bag of tpn and realize the patient bag's
- 12:43not available somebody forgot to ordered
- 12:45from Pharmacy or Pharmacy forgot to send
- 12:47it or there's something wrong with the
- 12:49bag when you get it and so now you don't
- 12:51have your tpn so it suddenly stop um we
- 12:54can't just go to the pixus and get
- 12:56another bag and if we hang
- 12:59um normal saline or or just even D5W the
- 13:04patient's going to suddenly get
- 13:06hypoglycemic because remember the
- 13:08pancreas has been secreting insulin like
- 13:10a madman and suddenly we have no glucose
- 13:12to match the insulin
- 13:14secretion and so um what's going to
- 13:16happen then is your blood glucose is
- 13:18going to drop dramatically this is one
- 13:20reason why we run tpn on an infusion
- 13:23pump maintaining constant rate and this
- 13:26this really helps stop those glucose
- 13:27changes
- 13:29now when the tpn is ready to be DCd
- 13:31we're going to always taper it down over
- 13:33a period of time so that the endogenous
- 13:36insulin production can slow down before
- 13:38the tpn is stopped so remember that if
- 13:42by some chance you your patient's
- 13:45receiving
- 13:46tpn and there's the bags run dry you
- 13:50will hang a bag of
- 13:52d10 you'll call um this will be in the
- 13:55pixus system that's the highest glucose
- 13:57concentration that we have about
- 13:58available on the floor you're going to
- 14:00call the pharmacy stat explain the
- 14:02situation so that they can quickly get a
- 14:04bag hung and during this time frame
- 14:06you're going to need to really closely
- 14:08watch for signs and symptoms of
- 14:09hypoglycemia in your
- 14:21patient we've mentioned a little bit
- 14:24about infection being a very big concern
- 14:27um we want to know that of course we
- 14:29know glucose is an excellent medium for
- 14:31bacterial growth we will do dressing
- 14:33changes according to hospital policy we
- 14:35don't want to break the IV line for
- 14:37anything um other than the lipid
- 14:38infusions and of course when we're using
- 14:41TPM the dressing will be changed every
- 14:4424 hours as always make sure the Central
- 14:47Line dressing is intact if anything um
- 14:50is wrong with that you'll will do a
- 14:52sterile dressing
- 14:54change don't let a b bag hang longer
- 14:56than 24 hours because all these viously
- 14:59that would be a great medium for
- 15:00bacterial growth remember that these are
- 15:02mixed in Pharmacy under Lam or air flow
- 15:04Hood to decrease the chance of infection
- 15:06and we have to continue that dilligence
- 15:08on the nursing unit we need to watch our
- 15:11patients for signs and symptoms of
- 15:12sepsis this would in include fever
- 15:15decrease blood pressure changeing mental
- 15:17status and look for infection at the
- 15:19catheter
- 15:27site
- 15:31some other stuff that we want to think
- 15:32about take tpn out of the bag um one
- 15:36hour before hanging always check the
- 15:39label um oral hygiene is very very
- 15:42important in all patients but even more
- 15:44so in individuals receiving
- 15:47tpn cold tpn um need we need to hang tpn
- 15:51of course at room temperature while we
- 15:52talk about taking out the refrigerator
- 15:54because cold tpn can cause basil spasm
- 15:57chest pain and hypothermia do not put
- 15:59the bag in the microwave or run it under
- 16:01hot water because these actions cause
- 16:03contamination and of course remember
- 16:05room temperature tpn is
- 16:20best
- 16:21documentation um obviously careful
- 16:24documentation of Ino and daily weight
- 16:27keep track of this we need to know that
- 16:29tpn is effective we want them to least
- 16:32be maintaining their weight and in some
- 16:33instances the goal is actually even to
- 16:35gain one to two pounds per week it just
- 16:37depends on the goal for the patient um
- 16:41in your
- 16:42documentation we want to be sure that we
- 16:46look at um when we hang it and how long
- 16:49that the TPA a TPA I'm sorry tpn has
- 16:52been
- 16:55hanging
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