A man from Scottsdale was happy to hear from a second opinion he would be taken off a feeding tube just in time for the ...

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 ...

Materials used for neonatal feeding tubes need to be resilient across wide ranges of pH, gentle to fragile tissues, and have the tensile strength to allow for the largest possible interior lumen ...

My first feeding tube went in before I had even graduated from university – through my nose, down my throat, and into my stomach. It would continually pump litres of thick calorific, milky feeds ...

Nasogastric intubation is easy and is an effective means of delivering nutrition and fluids when other feeding methods are not feasible. This column describes how to place a nasogastric tube in a ...

My lungs were depressed about 55%," he said. The first surgery led to a second surgery after experiencing complications. In June, doctors had to insert feeding tubes. "All I could do was drink ...

2008;65(24):2347-2357. Administer medications via the oral route when possible. Determine the enteral feeding tube size (e.g., small bore or large bore), insertion site (e.g., nasal or ...

Citation: Sisson H et al (2024) Nasogastric tube feeding children and young people with restraint. Nursing Times [online]; 120: 12. Authors: Helen Sisson is senior lecturer in children’s nursing, City ...