If you or your child with CF are struggling to achieve or maintain a healthy weight, or if you dread mealtime, tube feeding might be the tool you need to meet your nutritional goals. Parents of ...

You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways. Our patient required nasogastric tube (NGT) feeding for poor nutritional intake. He was alert ...

There is overwhelming evidence that the maintenance of enteral feeding is beneficial in patients in whom oral access has been diminished or lost. Short-term enteral access is usually achieved via naso ...

Nasogastric intubation is easy and is an effective means of delivering nutrition and fluids when other feeding methods are not feasible. This column describes how to place a nasogastric tube in a ...

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.

Many people with advanced dementia have a hard time eating, but studies show no benefits to tube feeding. In the US, feeding tube use went down by about 50% between 2000 and 2014, according to a ...