"He has contractures throughout his whole body, so he's a very atypical case of it, and it affects his swallowing muscles, so he's primarily G-tube fed until recently, where he's been eating more." ...

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.

Braun), a leader in smart infusion therapy and pain management, announced today the launch of its new Clik-FIX ® Epidural/Peripheral Nerve Block (PNB) Catheter Securement Device, the latest ...

Objective: to evaluate three methods of nasogastric tube fixation in terms of adhesion, displacement and skin integrity. Method: ex vivo study, with a sample of 30 experimental noses (10 for each type ...

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.