Nutiseadmete

Nutiseadmete are a category of equipment designed to support nutrition delivery, monitoring, and assessment in humans. They are used in hospitals, clinics, and home care to ensure safe and adequate nutrient intake for individuals who cannot meet needs through ordinary eating.

Main types include: enteral nutrition devices such as feeding tubes (nasogastric, orogastric, gastrostomy, or jejunostomy) and associated administration sets, plus enteral feeding pumps that regulate flow rate; parenteral nutrition equipment, including intravenous nutrition bags, infusion pumps, and central venous catheters; and monitoring devices and software that help assess energy expenditure, body composition, and nutritional status.

Regulation and safety: in many regions, nutiseadmete are classified as medical devices and are subject to regulatory approvals, quality standards, labeling, sterilization, and post-market surveillance. Training for clinicians and caregivers is essential to minimize risks such as infection, misdelivery of nutrients, tube misplacement, and metabolic complications.

Applications: hospital general wards, intensive care, rehabilitation centers, neonatal units, and home nutrition support programs for patients with chronic conditions, critical illness, or postoperative recovery.

History and trends: advances in materials, portability of pumps, precision dosing, and integration with electronic health records have increased safety and convenience. The term covers both consumables (tubes, pumps, nutrition formulas) and equipment (monitors, software).

See also: nutrition support, parenteral nutrition, enteral feeding.