Enteral Feeding Pump

We were excited to be trained in how to use this until an actual feeding completely failed! Even the nurses at the hospital couldn’t figure it out! This product should be taken off the market. A family in crisis does not need an extra crisis by a failed pump! We are supposed to be discharged from the hospital in two days with this piece of garbage of a pump. The pump failed to feed the last 11 1/2 ML to the baby. We had to painstakingly extract it and finish the feeding with a different pump. Alarms kept going off throughout the hour and a half feeding. It gets paused multiple times which causes the parent to lose time and have to continually return to the pump and reset it and try to troubleshoot what’s going on. At the beginning of the feeding we had to unscrew it from the baby and drain out the tube into a syringe which all took more time which tired parents do not have.

This pump is easy to use, and easy to carry around. I don’t understand the bad reviews, this pump has never failed my granddaughter and is a blessing for children who can not get the nourishment they need.

I'm a nurse and this is what medicare gives to children that need feeding. I can only tell you they are the worse thing ever. If you are a nurse and you used these pumps you know what I'm talking about> don't buy this. It is crap. I hope this message gets posted because I'm just trying to help. In my experience, Kangaroo feeding pumps are the safest/ functional.

My son was born premature and had to be taken via life flight to a bigger hospital. After eight weeks and many surgeries, it was determined that he would have to be fed through an alternative method. That's when I heard of the G-Tube. My son was fed via G-Tube with the help of this feeding pump for seven months. It is mobile which is great, has a backup battery when no power is available, alarms when not working correctly along with a display of what is wrong. If it's something more serious than an obstruction of feeding, it will display a code to look up in the manual. I learned how to operate this pump and the accessories really easily.An instructional DVD is included which is extremely helpful. My son couldn't have lived without it and I owe his life to this machine.