PEG Tube explained! 🏥PEG Tube: Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) Tube 🥼Insertion: Through the abdominal wall into the stomach 🍽️Purpose: Delivers nutrition, fluids, & medications DIRECTLY into the stomach 🤕Uses: For patients unable to eat or drink orally (ex.: brain injury, stroke, dysphagia) #NursingSchool #StudentNurse #NurseLife #FutureNurse #NursingSkills #NurseEducation #ClinicalSkills | Nurse In The Making

“How PEG Tube Surgery is Done: Life-Saving Feeding Tube Explained! A PEG Tube — short for Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy — is a medical procedure that helps patients who can’t eat or swallow safely get nutrition directly into their stomach. ✅ The doctor uses an endoscope (a flexible camera tube) to guide placement. ✅ A small incision is made in the abdomen. ✅ The feeding tube is inserted into the stomach through the skin. ✅ The tube allows liquid food and medicine to go directly to the stom