منابع مشابه
Percutaneous feeding tubes.
Patients who are unable to ingest adequate nutrients by oral intake present a common challenge for family physicians. Feeding difficulties can be caused by many factors, including anatomic, neurologic, and gastrointestinal dysfunction. Long-term nutritional support options include parenteral feeding and percutaneous enteral access. Nasogastric tubes are inappropriate for long-term outpatient us...
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BACKGROUND Gastrostomy feeding is a well established alternative method to long term nasogastric tube feeding. Many such patients have gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR) and require a fundoplication. A transgastric jejunal tube is an alternative when antireflux surgery fails, or is hazardous or inappropriate. AIMS To review experience of gastrojejunal (G-J) feeding over six years in two regional...
متن کاملPEG Feeding Tubes - Indications and Management
Failure of feeding: Dementia; however, there is insufficient evidence to suggest that enteral tube feeding is beneficial in patients with advanced dementia [6] . There is presently no evidence to suggest long-term survival rates improve in patients with advanced dementia who undergo PEG placement for dysphagia [7] . Cystic fibrosis: PEG feeding is safe, efficacious and acceptable in children an...
متن کاملMedication administration through enteral feeding tubes.
PURPOSE An overview of enteral feeding tubes, drug administration techniques, considerations for dosage form selection, common drug interactions with enteral formulas, and methods to minimize tube occlusion is given. SUMMARY Enteral nutrition through a feeding tube is the preferred method of nutrition support in patients who have a functioning gastrointestinal tract but who are unable to be f...
متن کاملOutcomes with the Use of Feeding Tubes
This article reviewed the outcome of 81,105 older Medicare beneficiaries who were discharged from hospitals in 1991 with gastrostomies. The mean age for men in this study was 78.4 years and for women was 81.8 years. Cerebral vascular disease, cancer, fluid and electrolytes disorders, and aspiration pneumonia were the most common prior diagnoses in these patients. Thirty days after placement of ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.325.7362.496