Twenty-eight patients have died across hospitals in England after NHS staff wrongly inserted feeding tubes into their airways. Tube feeding, also referred to as artificial feeding, is a way of ...

Nearly 30 patients have died after blundering NHS staff misplaced feeding tubes into their airways, MailOnline can reveal. Over the past five years, 145 incidents of wrongly inserted nasogastric tubes ...

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A retired ambulance worker suffered a 'slow and painful' death after medics failed to notice they accidentally put a feeding tube into her lung for more than 10 hours, an inquest has heard. Maura ...

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If you can’t eat or swallow, your doctor or nurse will insert a thin plastic tube through your nostril, down your esophagus, and into your stomach. If you can’t eat or swallow, you may need to have a ...

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 ...

A nasogastric tube is thin, soft, and flexible. The tube feeds directly into your baby’s stomach and food is processed through normal digestion. It shouldn't make your baby uncomfortable. The tubes ...

Tube feeding involves giving a liquid dietary formula through a flexible tube inserted into the digestive tract. It is used when patients can’t get enough nutrition by eating. Feeding tubes can be ...

There have been 145 incidents of wrongly inserted nasogastric tubes in hospitals in England over the past five years - and 28 of these ended in the patient's death Across hospitals in England, 28 ...