Introduction PEG feeding in patients with head and neck and upper GI cancers is known to derive nutritional and mortality benefits. Standard inside-out PEG insertion is not always technically possible ...

Introduction PEG feeding improves prognosis and general state of health when patients cannot maintain adequate nutrition. Some hospitals now have nutrition teams who review percutaneous endoscopic ...

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 ... the child ...

He had a complete endoscopic and radiological response. Supplemental overnight PEG feeding was continued. On clinical review 3 months later, a tumour mass, with purulent discharge, was evident beside ...

A 53-year-old man with dysphagia underwent uneventful placement of a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube for long-term enteral feeding access. 11 hours after the procedure, it was ...

An exciting one day course specifically aimed at teaching the skills and knowledge required to place PEG feeding tubes as first assistant for specialist Nurses who have identified this learning need ...

or delayed enteral feeding and to either nasogastric or percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) feeding. Although not statistically significant, the odds of death were slightly lower for patients ...