Feeding tubes are valuable assets in the rehabilitation of adult patients with dysphagia. Feeding tubes may be placed in response to perceived risks of airway compromise or insufficient nutrient intake. However, not all patients require long-term enteral feeding. With intensive dysphagia therapy, many patients will experience resolving deficits or improvement in swallowing ability. These patien...

The objective of nutritional support is to provide sufficient nutrients to maintain or improve nutritional state.' These aims may be difficult to achieve using enteral nutrition2 as positive nitrogen balance may not be established consistently throughout a course.3 This finding has little to do with the formulation of the diet itself as up to one third of a prescribed diet may never reach the p...

Enteral tube feeding is usually a relatively straightforward method of nutritional support, and should be facilitated by a multiprofessional team. For short-term use (<4 weeks) a fine bore feeding nasogastric tube is indicated but if longer term feeding is required then a gastrostomy is appropriate, usually inserted endoscopically (a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube). The most common se...

We evaluated effects of duodenojejunal (DJ) feeding on gastric pH and selected gastrointestinal hormones in 13 randomly selected patients in an intensive care unit (ICU). To obtain baseline values for gastric pH, a nasogastric (NG) tube was placed in each patient and gastric pH was measured every 30 minutes for 2 hours. To obtain control values, a Dobbhoff tube was placed fluoroscopically and 0...

BACKGROUND Early enteral feeding practices are potentially modifiable risk factors for necrotising enterocolitis in very preterm or very low birth weight (VLBW) infants. Observational studies suggest that conservative feeding regimens that include slowly advancing enteral feed volumes reduce the risk of necrotising enterocolitis. However, slow feed advancement may delay establishment of full en...

Patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) often require postoperative artificial nutrition. This trial was undertaken to evaluate whether the route of administration and the composition of the postoperative nutritional support could affect the immunometabolic response and outcome. A prospective, randomized trial was carried out in 212 subjects who underwent PD. Patients were randomized t...

background:  a great number of premature neonates do not tolerate sufficient milk during the early neonatal period.   objective: to evaluate the effect of oral erythromycin on enhancement of feeding tolerance in preterm newborns.   methods: sixty preterm neonates intolerant to milk of >75 ml/kg/day during 5 days after the start of feedings, were randomized into a treatment and a control groups....

Giving medications though enteral feeding tubes can be fraught with danger.

Background: Postoperative intragastric enteral feeding in cardiac surgery patients is frequently complicated by delayed

Nutritional insult after bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is complex and its nutritional management challenging. Enteral nutrition is cheaper and easier to provide than parenteral nutrition, but its tolerance and effectiveness in reversing nutritional depletion after BMT is poorly defined. Nutritional status, wellbeing, and nutritional biochemistry were prospectively assessed in 21 children (m...