Aims: To determine benefits and risks for gastrostomy or jejunostomy feeding compared with oral feeding for children with cerebral palsy ... Intervention: use of gastrostomy or jejunostomy tube to ...

Radiologic approach The gastrostomy tube is guided ... Bard Wizard, MIC-KEY, and Bard Button. Reprinted with permission from The Decision to Place a Feeding Tube. Kids With Tubes News.

Abstract: There are two main enteral feeding strategies—namely nasogastric (NG) tube feeding and percutaneous gastrostomy—used to improve the nutritional status of patients with head and neck cancer ...

Cite this: The Who, What, Why, and How-To Guide for Gastrostomy Tube Placement ... Bard Wizard, MIC-KEY, and Bard Button. Reprinted with permission from The Decision to Place a Feeding Tube.

As preoperative assessment for GOR may not predict which patients will develop GOR after gastrostomy some physicians recommend a clinical trial of nasogastric tube feeding for two weeks, and if this ...

Their median time from disease diagnosis to gastrostomy was around eight months (227 days). Researchers conducted statistical tests looking for variables that were associated with increased risk of ...

Gastrostomy feeding is commonly used to support motor neurone disease patients with dysphagia. However, there is no robust evidence to suggest the optimal timing for gastrostomy insertion. Methods ...

Introduction Insertion of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tubes allows long-term enteral feeding in selected patient groups ... Methods Having been identified on an endoscopy database, the ...