The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses has updated its Practice Alert for feeding tube insertion and created a new Practice Alert covering aspiration prevention practices for tube-fed ...

In hundreds of interviews in five states with family members of persons who had advanced dementia, researchers found that their decision-making process for whether to insert a feeding tube often ...

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 ...

Subspecialists are much more likely than hospitalists or generalists to insert a feeding tube in hospitalized elderly patients with advanced dementia, according to a new study. The study helps to ...

A team of clinician researchers from Lawson Health Research Institute have partnered with medical device company CoapTech LLC to study a new method of feeding tube insertion. The study is assessing ...

Journal of the American Geriatric Society, May 2011: “Important opportunies exist to improve decision-making in feeding tube insertion.” var docstoc_docid=”132831927″;var docstoc_title=”decision”;var ...

Physicians’ specialties may impact whether or not they choose to administer a feeding tube to patients with advanced dementia, according to a study in Health Affairs. They found hospitalists were the ...

We evaluated the usefulness of capnographic monitoring for preventing respiratory complications and the clinical characteristics associated with inserting a feeding tube in a critically ill patient.