We are having issues with nurses not hanging D10 when tube feeds are stopped and patient received insulin. We have a request to document tube feeds on the MAR in order to facilitate clinical decision support.

If you have tube feeds on the MAR and use Epic, please provide information on your Epic build or provide a contact that I can use to help us with this.

Thank you,
Ann

We have an order set for insulin that contains orders for hypoglycemia treatment and also an order for D10 for hypoglycemia prevention. If the patient receives NPH insulin and continuous tube feeds are later stopped, the nurse is to hang D10 at the same rate as the feeding rate. The D10 order may be placed days before the tube feeds are stopped for procedure or other reason. Our nurses are not hanging the D10 in all cases and we see 1-2 safety events each month for hypoglycemia due to this.