Is a patient under your care cannot be fed due to some condition? Is starvation in the patient prolonging the recovery? Gastrostomy tubes may provide a solution in this case. This article provides a brief overview of use and efficacy of gastrostomy tubes. Every disease recovery process requires adequate supplementary dietary regimen. Without this regimen, no patient can improve significantly.
In fact, starvation in some patients can actually prolong the recovery as well as can create other complications. To overcome the starvation, enteral access is created to initiate tube feeding. Temporary access can be achieved by nasogastric or nasoenteric feeding tube. But, these tubes often fail due clogging or inadvertent dislodging thus cannot provide a fully secure option for the provision of nutrition. As these tubes have comparatively high failure rate, sometimes more permanent enteral…
