Poor location can cause discomfort, skin irritation, leakage, and difficulty in stabilizing the tube. A tube exit site that is not easily visibile to the patient can limit resumption of self-care and independence. Two methods of preplacement marking for feeding tube locations are described. ...
Placement of a jejunostomy tube is indicated in situations where the proximal gastrointestinal system is unable to be used safely as a route for delivery of enteral nutrition, but intestinal function is otherwise unimpaired. Tube placement may be the sole indication for the operation, or may accompa...
As with all skin-level devices, the Entristar™device is normally inserted as a replacement tube, when a mature tract has already been established during a previous percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) procedure. The technique described in this report is simpler than the standard jejunostomy....
After esophagectomy in which a surgical jejunostomy is performed, there is a small group of patients whose jejunostomy tube has been removed who require late postoperative nutritional support. For these patients, a percutaneous replacement jejunostomy technique is described that is simple and safe and ...
Tube dysfunction, defined as peritube leakage, plugging, fracture, or migration, occurred in 36% of patients over a mean follow-up period of 275 days and was significantly more common and likely to necessitate tube replacement in PEJ patients. Tube trade-out or removal and aspiration within a...
Subsequently, the patient underwent a novel method of fluoroscopic guided replacement of jejunostomy tube, carried out without local anesthesia or sedation. Conclusion: The best way to deal with tube unclogging is to prevent it. Clear hospital protocols regarding the proper care of feeding tubes ...
Methods: Operation time and procedure, anesthesia and tube types, procedure-specific and surgical complications, and tube replacement at the follow up period were retro- spectively analyzed.K. Bora YilmazL. DoganM. AkinciC. AtalayN. Karaman...
These included six tube occlusions, one tube site infection, one peristomal leak, and one tube perforation that required replacement. Five of six tube occlusions (83%) occurred in the smaller 8.5-Fr. tubes. There was one non-tube-related death.#PEG/J insertion can be performed successfully ...
Three patients required home enteral support; one experienced a minor skin irritation at the catheter site that resolved by replacement with a larger feeding tube. In conclusion, the authors have successfully employed enteral feeding in the hospital setting with low morbidity. They selected jejunostomy...
There were no major complications requiring reoperation but four patients had excoriation at the T-tube site and three patients had tube dislodgement which required bedside replacement of the feeding tube. The mean duration of feeding tube was 127.3 ± 99.6 days.CONCLUSIONS: Laparoscopic ...