A Milwaukee woman learned a feeding tube was left in her body for more than 30 years. The woman said the tube was inserted while she was on life support in 1989, but it was never removed. Now, the ...

ASK THE ETHICISTS: The Church teaches that providing nutrition and hydration is morally required only when these benefit the patient and do not cause excessive burdens. The Catechism of the Catholic ...

Two-month-old Erioluwa Ajala died after medics at Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham incorrectly inserted a medication and ...

A Wisconsin lawsuit accuses a hospital of leaving a feeding tube in a woman’s body after an emergency surgery in 1989. Photo by Martha Dominguez via Unsplash For years after an emergency C-section and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Despite the common clinical practice of delaying feedings after [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG)] ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 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., ...

But my passion for eating came to a screeching halt this summer when I had a medical crisis that required a tracheostomy and a G-J (gastric and jejunostomy) tube rendering me unable to speak or eat.

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Several medications interact with EN, and patients should be monitored for altered clinical response or subtherapeutic drug levels. [13] The more common drug–nutrient interactions are described below.