Baby with g-tube restarting feeds via gravity/drip method.Baby has order to feed "neocate, 22 ml/hr to gravity." 70 ml of milk was drawn up in 100ml neomed enfit syringe, connected to an abc infant enteral feeding pump, set to infuse at 22 ml/hr.When rn looked at syringe an hour or so later, the syringe no longer had milk in it, even though the pump was going as expected and plunger was in place in syringe.Feeding infused too quickly, possibly due to some sort of "leak" in system, allowing milk to go in via gravity rather than the prescribed rate.Rn tested the same syringe/pump with water after this event, and same results occurred.Syringe of milk emptied prior to expected time via pump.Same rn tested a 2nd 100ml syringe to see if the same thing would happen, and it infused as expected.
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