Tube feeding involves giving a liquid dietary formula through a flexible tube inserted into the digestive tract. It is used when patients can’t get enough nutrition by eating. Feeding tubes can be ...

Administer medications via the oral route when possible. Determine the enteral feeding tube size (e.g., small bore or large bore), insertion site (e.g., nasal or percutaneous), tip location (e.g ...

Nasogastric intubation is easy and is an effective means of delivering nutrition and fluids when other feeding methods are not feasible. This column describes how to place a nasogastric tube in a ...

VAL KILMER revealed how he was left using an electronic voice box and was fed by a tube after bravely battling cancer before ...

A Vietnam veteran died after a feeding tube error at Atlanta VA. A judge awarded his family $8.7M for grievous malpractice.

A Milwaukee woman who was placed on life support for two months says a feeding tube was left inside her body for three ...

Gavage feeding is commonly indicated for anorectic animals or for oral dosing of medications and compounds. This column describes the proper technique for tube feeding in the psittacine bird.

With the feeding tube still in his nose, Bolsonaro in a live broadcast on Facebook paid tribute to the doctors who he said had saved his life Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro had a feeding tube ...

The parents of two children with rare conditions have described the life-changing impact of their children's procedures to insert specialised feeding tubes.