Tube feeding involves giving a liquid dietary formula through a flexible tube inserted into the digestive tract. It is used when patients can’t get enough nutrition by eating. Feeding tubes can be ...

In the concluding paragraphs of their CME article, the authors point out that "PEG tube feeding is not a terminal or even symbolic measure in patients with a poor prognosis or incurable illness in ...

Few patients in the NICU ... or modified from practice in older children and adults. This is unacceptable given the importance of these tubes to the safety and feeding of these vulnerable infants.