Universal guidelines and improvements in technology are needed to reduce injuries and deaths from improper placement of nasogastric feeding tubes in pediatric patients, according to a comprehensive ...

Enteral nutrition what goes through a tube feeding to replace or supplement oral nutrition. If you cannot get enough nutrition by eating or drinking through your mouth, you may need a feeding tube.

A variety of access routes into the gastrointestinal tract and a range of feeding tube types are used for enteral feeding. This article is a practical guide and comes with a self-assessment enabling ...

The advent of total parenteral nutrition in the late 1960s meant that no situation remained in which a patient could not be fed. Unfortunately, total parenteral nutrition was complicated by serious ...

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 ...

ENvizion's enteral feeding tube placement technology provides hospital clinicians confidence to place enteral feeding tubes correctly, potentially saving time and lives during the COVID-19 rush TEL ...

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.

Juliette McAleer was a busy working mum studying for her PhD when she was hospitalised late one night and diagnosed with a twisted bowel. It turned into months in hospital, multiple traumatic ...

The rise in the patient population with malnutrition, the high demand for tube feeding among cancer patients, the increased demand for low-profile enterostomy feeding tubes, and high growth ...

American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.) Universal guidelines and improvements in technology are needed to reduce injuries and deaths from improper placement of nasogastric ...