A variety of access routes into the gastrointestinal tract and a range of feeding tube types are used for enteral feeding. This article is a practical guide and comes with a self-assessment enabling ...

The aim of this study was to perform a retrospective analysis characterizing patients receiving tube feeding following percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube placement between 2004 and 2012 at ...

Placement of a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube has become an 'essential' technique for children and young people with a wide range of problems with feeding and nutrition. Gastrostomy ...

Post-gastrostomy complications range from 8 to 30%. These complications often occur following discharge into the community and may result in hospital readmission. Our unit previously reported a ...

For gastric decompression. If enteral tube feeding is likely to be needed only for a short time (less than four weeks), a feeding tube is usually inserted into the stomach through the nose ...