A patient who is receiving continuous enteral feedings has just vomited 250 mL of milky green fluid. This is a concern because this most likely demonstrates that the patient has:
a. a bowel obstruction.
b. developed an ileus.
c. gastrointestinal bleeding.
d. tube feeding intolerance.
D
Nausea and vomiting are signs of tube feeding intolerance.
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