[Innovation in clinical nutrition: single dose in intermittent enteral tube feeding]

The home enteral nutrition practical guidelines of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) published in 2020 includes 61 recommendations. A significant number of them are related to safety parameters, prevention of complications, control strategies and quality of life of patients and family members. These are the same reasons why single-dose units are usually used on all medicines. Enteral feeding is one of the few treatments that has not yet reached the single dose and most patients with intermittent enteral nutrition by gastric tube have a dose which differs from pharmaceutical presentation. This leads to the risk of complications arising from errors in the administration that should not be forgotten and that affect mostly elderly and highly dependent populations. The innovation that consists in the creation of 375 ml single-dose containers for enteral feeding following the physiological schedules of the takes can solve most of them and meets the energy protein requirements and recommendations on dosage developed by scientific societies for patients at higher risk.