Feeding patients with acute pancreatitis within 48 hours of hospitalization shows no increase in adverse events and may reduce days spent in the hospital among those with mild to moderate pancreatitis ...

Luminoah Flow™ Luminoah Flow™ is an enteral feeding system designed to improve the experience of patients who rely on tube ...

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 ...

For patients with advanced dementia, eating, and in particular swallowing, is difficult. Certain types of doctors are more likely than others to insert gastric feeding tubes into patients with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Limited evidence suggests that early enteral feeding for patients hospitalized with mild-to-moderate acute ...

Is oral feeding of a patient who is ventilator-dependent and has a chronic indwelling tracheostomy tube acceptable? Isn’t there a risk of aspiration if patients with tracheostomies who do not have ...

The study comes "amid growing empirical data and expert opinion" that the use of feeding tubes has no health benefit and "may be associated with increased risks and discomfort," Mitchell said. Sandra ...

Syncro Medical Innovations has raised additional debt to help pay for aggressively pushing an improved version of its innovative feeding tube to market. The Youngstown startup has been selling the ...

Welcome to Ethics Consult -- an opportunity to discuss, debate (respectfully), and learn together. We select an ethical dilemma in patient care, you vote, and then we present an expert's judgment.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “This study helps to strengthen the evidence for careful hand-feeding, particularly for places where nasogastric ...

Bags have been filled with snacks, such as pudding cups, applesauce, granola bars, fruit snacks, pretzels and mints, among ...

NEW YORK, NY - The USNS Comfort, a Norfolk-based Navy hospital ship, is busy in New York, treating patients in what has become one of the epicenters of the COVID-19 pandemic. Patients being treated ...