How do you check gastric residual in gastrostomy tube?

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At the facility that I work at our policy is to use the syringe the we have for medication administration, it is a 60cc syringe, we put the feeding on hold , if the resident (patient) is on continuous feeding, insert the syringe in the g-tube and pull back.

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