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 ...

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.

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 ...

While a healthy, balanced diet improves quality of life, people suffering from common symptoms of advanced dementia often have a weak swallow or lose the ability to swallow safely, especially toward ...

FREQUENTLY seen on medical and surgical wards are patients who have increased nutritional demands for tissue production and for the maintenance of life. Some examples of these situations are patients ...

Indications for nasogastric tube insertion, the procedure for inserting a nasogastric tube and how to check whether it is in the correct position Durai, R. et al (2009) Nasogastric tubes 1: insertion ...