The Challenge of Feeding Tubes Hospice services will not be denied to a patient who already has a feeding tube in place. The hospice team will work closely with the patient, family, and caregiver to decide whether to continue to use the tube. While a feeding tube technically...
For example, when inserting a PEG feeding tube was considered: Clinician 1: Yeah, the husband/wife did also mention about the medication that it would be easier for them to administer medication through the PEG… Clinician 2: So it would take a bit of the burden off them worrying about ...
A 28 year old woman with anorexia nervosa was sent to an emergency room by her gastroenterologist for weakness and nausea following placement of a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube, with a plan for admission to the hospital. She spent 2 days in the emergency room without receiving ...
If a gas was used as the permeating fluid, the compressibility of the gas has to be accounted for. This can be done by combining the ideal gas equation and Eqn. (6), with kl replaced by kg. The resulting equation is (7)Q=kgAΔPpbarmLP where kg is the gas permeability, pbar ...