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Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomies in Children

Pediatrics, 1986
Our ability to maintain the nutritional status of acute and chronically ill children is enhanced by advances in special enteral feedings.1-3 When compared with parenteral nutrition, enteral feedings are accompanied by fewer complications, the ability to deliver large quantities of nutrients, relative ease of administration, and lower cost.2,3 ...
Neal S. Leleiko, Jerome D. Waye, Phillip G. Kazlow, Keith J. Benkov   +3 more
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Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG): a practical approach for long term management

British medical journal, 2019
### What you need to know Non-specialists may be involved in care of patients with gastrostomy tubes, in a nursing facility, hospital, or at a patient’s home.
K. Farrag, Y. Shastri, Ulrike Beilenhoff, A. Aksan, J. Stein   +4 more
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Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in older patients with and without dementia: Survival and ethical considerations

Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2019
Notwithstanding multiple recommendations in guidelines, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG)‐tube placement is still performed in patients with dementia.
Rozemarijn Lidewij Bruchem‐Visser, F. Mattace-Raso, Inez Duconia Beaufort, E. Kuipers   +3 more
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Experiences with Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy [PDF]

World Journal of Surgery, 1996
AbstractToday the procedure of choice for long‐term enteral tube feeding in patients with prolonged swallowing difficulties or inabilities is percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG). The primary indications are head and neck cancers, neurologic dysphagia, cancer cachexia, and obstruction of the esophagus and pharynx with enough space for an ...
Albrecht Encke, Sinikka Held, V. Paolucci, C. N. Gutt   +3 more
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Tumor implantation following percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy insertion for head and neck and oesophageal cancer: Review of the literature

Head and Neck, 2019
Because of publication bias, there is uncertainty about the true incidence of tumor seeding or implantation in patients with head and neck or oesophageal cancer undergoing percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) insertion.
N. Rowell
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Complications of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy

Military Medicine, 1992
Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) has become a commonly performed procedure to provide nutritional support to chronically ill patients. Following a PEG-related death, we retrospectively reviewed our complication rate with that of the published values.
William C. Calton, Robert G. Martindale, S M Gooden   +2 more
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Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Nursing Management of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy and Jejunostomy (PEG/PEJ) in Adult Patients: An Executive Summary

Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing (WOCN), 2018
Enteral nutrition (EN) is the introduction of nutrients into the gastrointestinal tract through a tube placed in a natural or artificial stoma. Tubes may be passed into the stomach (gastrostomy) or the jejunum (jejunostomy) in patients who cannot obtain ...
G. Roveron, M. Antonini, M. Barbierato, Vita Calandrino, Giancarlo Canese, Lucio Fernando Chiurazzi, Gesualdo Coniglio, Gabriele Gentini, Mara Marchetti, A. Minucci, Laura Nembrini, Vanessa Neri, Paola Trovato, F. Ferrara   +13 more
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Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy

2015
Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) provides a long-term method of enteral feeding for patients with swallowing difficulty.
Jae Myung Park, Chul-Hyun Lim
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Endoscopic Percutaneous Gastrostomy

Digestive Surgery, 1987
Long-term enteral nutrition of patients has proved to be of value not only in cases of esophageal stenosis but in disorders of deglutition due to other causes as well.
K. Rückauer, Waldmann D, R. Salm
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Decreasing Use of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Tube Feeding in Japan

Journal of The American Geriatrics Society, 2018
To identify trends in percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube placement and intravenous hyperalimentation (IVH) in nonhospital settings (as a potential alternative to tube feeding for nutrition) and to summarize published reports concerning the ...
Kosaku Komiya, Yuko Usagawa, J. Kadota, N. Ikegami   +3 more
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