Advanced dementia patients are more likely to receive feeding tubes if they are taken from nursing homes to acute care hospitals, according to a new report. This occurs despite mounting evidence that ...

Fewer U.S. nursing home patients with dementia are getting feeding tubes as mounting evidence suggests it may not help them live longer or make them more comfortable, new research suggests.

The proportion of long-term care residents who had advanced dementia and received feeding tubes dropped by 50% between 2000 and 2014, according to a new analysis. Researchers at Hebrew SeniorLife ...

Large, acute-care hospitals that are for profit insert feeding tubes in nursing-home patients with advanced dementia more often than government-owned hospitals do, a new study finds. The feeding tube ...

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NAINR. 2014;14(3):103-108. While the x-ray is not a practical tool for routine assessment in the neonatal population, it does present the most accurate picture of placement. When x-rays are obtained ...

Feeding tubes deliver nutrition, hydration, and medication directly to a person’s stomach or intestines. A healthcare professional will insert it through the nose, mouth, or abdomen. A person may not ...

A variety of access routes into the gastrointestinal tract and a range of feeding tube types are used for enteral feeding. This article is a practical guide and comes with a self-assessment enabling ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A drugged intruder barging into nursing home residents' rooms in the middle of the night went unreported by administration. A nurse tried to unclog a man's feeding tube with a paper ...

Gastric tubes are available in a variety of materials, sizes and configurations. The composition of a medical device should be determined by the environment in which it is meant to reside and the ...