Your doctor may recommend a feeding tube if you have throat cancer and can‘t consume enough nutrients. The length of time may vary depending on the exact reasons for the feeding tube. Every year, over ...

Feeding tubes may neither delay death nor improve quality of life for nursing home patients with severe dementia, yet the use of feeding tubes varies widely. In some states the use of feeding tubes is ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A new study led by Brown University researchers reports that percutaneous endoscopic gastric (PEG) feeding tubes, long assumed to help bedridden dementia patients ...

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses has updated its Practice Alert for feeding tube insertion and created a new Practice Alert covering aspiration prevention practices for tube-fed ...

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I was pleased to see the two-part story calling attention to increasing use of feeding tubes with dying patients (11/29-30/12). It's important that all of us are aware of this unfortunate practice of ...

Surrogates perceived that feeding tubes had greater benefits for patients with dementia than actually exist, results of small prospective survey indicate. “Feeding patients with dementia through ...

Q. How long can a person go without food and water? If you are dying, can a hospital withhold food and water from you if that is what the family wants? What are the results of not having water or food ...

Fully a third of patients who have certain feeding tubes placed for Parkinson’s disease-related dysphagia are discharged to an eldercare facility, a new outcomes study has found. Investigators ...

In hundreds of interviews in five states with family members of persons who had advanced dementia, researchers found that their decision-making process for whether to insert a feeding tube often ...

Universal guidelines and improvements in technology are needed to reduce injuries and deaths from improper placement of nasogastric feeding tubes in pediatric patients, according to a comprehensive ...