A feeding tube is a device that’s inserted into your stomach through your abdomen. It’s used to supply nutrition when you have trouble eating. Feeding tube insertion is also called percutaneous ...
What Is a Feeding Tube? A feeding tube is a flexible plastic tube placed into your stomach or bowel to help you get nutrition when you’re unable to eat as well as you need to. Tube feeding, also known ...
Norman Swan: You're with the Health Report here on ABC Radio National still to come - making doctors' and hospitals' performance publicly available. But before that let's go to an issue linked to the ...
Post-gastrostomy complications range from 8 to 30%. These complications often occur following discharge into the community and may result in hospital readmission. Our unit previously reported a ...
Many severe and/or chronic diseases of childhood can be accompanied by undernutrition, and when dietary measures are insufficient to fulfil the nutritional requirements of these children, enteral ...