Advanced dementia patients are more likely to receive feeding tubes if they are taken from nursing homes to acute care hospitals, according to a new report. This occurs despite mounting evidence that ...

There is no real benefit to using feeding tubes to care for those approaching the end of life. They should be considered only as a last possible option, according to a report from the Royal College of ...

One-third of U.S. nursing home patients in the final stages of Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia are given feeding tubes, despite evidence that the practice serves no benefit and may even cause ...

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 ...

Nurses noticed that the feeding tube of Lakshith Guptha Nalla, who died at the University Hospital of Wales, hadn't been ...

Leading doctors say some dying patients are inappropriately being given stomach tubes for feeding. New guidelines from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) say every effort should be made to maintain ...

Gastric tubes are available in a variety of materials, sizes and configurations. The composition of a medical device should be determined by the environment in which it is meant to reside and the ...