Enteral nutrition is a cornerstone of supportive care in critically ill patients, and the methods for feeding tube placement have evolved markedly over recent decades. Early approaches relied on blind ...

The usefulness of Roux-en-Y reconstruction with aboral pouch following total gastrectomy for gastric cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2017 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This ...

In hundreds of interviews in five states with family members of persons who had advanced dementia, researchers found that their decision-making process for whether to insert a feeding tube often ...

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses has updated its Practice Alert for feeding tube insertion and created a new Practice Alert covering aspiration prevention practices for tube-fed ...

London researchers have become the first in the world to use a new method of inserting feeding tubes that aims to improve patient care. A team of clinician-researchers from Lawson Health Research ...

While a healthy, balanced diet improves quality of life, people suffering from common symptoms of advanced dementia often have a weak swallow or lose the ability to swallow safely, especially toward ...

London doctors are the first in the world to use a new method for inserting feeding tubes, a procedure that can be completed at a patient’s bedside. Scientists at the Lawson Health Research Institute, ...