The Church teaches that tube feeding is, in principle, ordinary care and hence morally obligatory. How should clinicians go about deciding when to recommend tube feeding in a manner that serves the best interest
let’s just say funding was there for 24-hour home care. I would argue that the soonest your mother has a tracheostomy, has a PEG or anasogastric tube, it doesn’t matter and she
Tu1393 Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) Tubes: Are We Practicing and Teaching Only One PEG Placement Technique When We Should Be Doing More? a Survey StudyBackground In 1980, the first PEG tube was placed. Since then, its popularity as a mean for providing enteral nutrition has grown...
Is the Request for Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) Tube Appropriate? Outcome of 250 PEG Placement Consults in African American and Hispanic Patients in a Inner-City Community Teaching HospitalBackground: Capsule impaction is a well-recognized complication of capsule endoscopy, with an ...
Following this, classroom and practical teaching sessions were organised and questionnaires repeated. Results 66 questionnaires were completed and returned by junior doctors. 50 doctors (76%) had previously cared for patients with a PEG tube. One (1.5%) felt confident in managing blocked or ...
PP030-SUN REVIEW OF PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY (PEG) TUBE INSERTIONS IN A LARGE TEACHING HOSPITALdoi:10.1016/S1744-1161(11)70084-9A. C. Mc HughC. BrowneD. Mc CormackS. BradyY. LydonElsevier LtdClinical Nutrition Supplements
The current study aimed to compare clinical outcomes and complication rates in patients who underwent PEG and RIG procedures at a tertiary teaching hospital in Australia.MethodsA retrospective review was conducted on patients who underwent PEG or RIG tube insertion between February 2013 and February ...
Aim Assess the role of skin cut and second look gastroscopy as part of standard PEG placement, and early tube feeding. Methods The records of 426 patients, who underwent PEG placement between January 2007 and October 2009 at a teaching hospital, were reviewed. The patients were assigned to ...
• Monitor patient for development of diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, or hyperthyroidism. • Be aware that if HCV level remains high after 6 months, drug should be discontinued. Patient teaching • Tell patient to take exactly as prescribed. If he misses a dose but remembers it within 2...