In oncological patients with upper gastrointestinal tract tumours, dysphagia and cachexy necessitate gastrostomy or jejunostomy as the only options of enteral access for long-term feeding. In this ...

A variety of access routes into the gastrointestinal tract and a range of feeding tube types are used for enteral feeding. This article is a practical guide and comes with a self-assessment enabling ...

Specialized nutrition support is often used in hospitalized, critically ill patients. [87] Beneficial effects of nutritional support include the preservation of lean tissue mass and host defenses.

The Feeding Tubes Market is a rapidly growing industry that caters to the increasing demand for enteral nutrition devices. Feeding tubes are medical devices designed to deliver nutritional formulas ...