… Such patients require postpyloric tube placement with simultaneous gastric decompression
… enteral nutrition teams of nurses with specialized training and experience in feeding tube …

… Indications for enteral nutrition Generally, there are three indications for enteral nutrition. The
first is … Again, the gastric residual volume should be checked before each feeding. Residual …

… to compare gastric tube aspiration every 4 hours with a variable gastric tube aspiration …
Patients could be fed via a gastric tube or small bowel tube (if a gastric tube was also inserted) as …

… Traditionally, gastric tube feedings have been initiated with dilute formulas … gastric secretions
can dilute the feeding formula, more recent studies have reported that full-strength gastric …

… better tolerated, gastric content is slowly released into the duodenum and nasogastric tubes
(… gastric outlet obstruction preclude gastric feeding [3]. However, results of studies comparing …

… opportunity for gastric cancer … enteral nutrition therapy by means of a nutritional tube under
a gastroscope to verify the feasibility and potential benefits of pre-operative enteral nutrition …

… enteral nutrition when large volumes of gastric residuals are continuously removed or if a
patient has poor gastric … receiving enteral nutrition, it is recommended that the tube feeding be …

… low figures by reducing the gastric residue, although in our patients the gastric residue
was not measured periodically. We think that the need for testing the gastric residue and the …

… -bore tubes as they reduce patient discomfort and gastric erosion. However, the tube may
interfere with the function of the lower oesophageal sphincter, meaning that gastric reflux and …

… fixed to a preformed gastrostomy tube with a circular buffer, and the thread is pulled back
through the abdominal wall pulling the gastrostomy tube until it abuts the gastric mucosa (Fig 1e…