If you stop to think about it, it's pretty amazing how we get energy into our bodies. For most of us, we ingest calories orally by eating (hopefully nutritious and delicious) food and drink.

For any of these individuals, placing a feeding tube might be a good short- or long-term solution to maintain weight, energy levels and bodily function. News Today's news ...

Considering lung collapse (pneumothorax) affects 2-5% of 35 million feeding tube placements every year worldwide, the safe placement of a nasogastric feeding tube requires special medical care.

The final analysis included 28 studies involving 4,056 patients who underwent at least one EM-guided (n = 2,921), endoscopic (n = 730) and/or fluoroscopic (n = 405) nasoenteral feeding tube ...

Endoscopic nasoenteral feeding tubes introduced using a clip-assisted technique were better placed and less commonly subject to spontaneous migration than standard placement in a recent study. In ...

The placement of a feeding tube reduces the risk of "aspiration pneumonia," but it neither prevents that complication nor appears to prolong life, according to published research and medical experts.

Placement of NG tubes outside normal working hours was stopped – except in high-risk areas – by educating staff; in the majority of cases, NG feeding tube insertions could wait until the morning. The ...

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1997: Assessing survival benefit of feeding tube placement in nursing home residents with severe cognitive impairment. var docstoc_docid=”132832331″;var docstoc ...

To identify factors associated with feeding tube placement during acute hospitalizations, researchers analyzed Medicare claims files and federally mandated data collected from U.S. nursing homes.

The majority of hospitalized patients who undergo feeding tube placement do so without receiving a palliative care assessment first, a recent study has shown. Researchers with Rutgers New Jersey ...

Journal of the American Medical Association, October 1999: “The widespread practice of tube feeding should be carefully reconsidered; for severely demented patients, the practice should be ...