Endoscopic enteral access

Enteral nutrition access devices.

The ASGE Technology Committee provides reviews of existing, new, or emerging endoscopic technologies that have an impact on the practice of GI endoscopy. Evidence-based methodology is used, performing a MEDLINE literature search to identify pertinent clinical studies on the topic and a MAUDE (U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health) database search to identi...

Complications of enteral access.

The perceived health benefits of enteral feeding have placed increasing demands on endoscopists to acquire the expertise needed to establish enteral access, to monitor patients undergoing enteral feeding, and to manage the complications arising from the initial access procedure. In the setting of acute critical care, the provision of enteral feeding is seen as therapy that reduces systemic bact...

Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy for Enteral Nutrition

ESPEN guidelines on artificial enteral nutrition--percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG).

Medical Department, Rotes Kreuz Krankenhaus Kassel, 34121 Kassel, Germany Medical Department, AKH Wels, 4600 Wels, Austria GI Nutrition, Archet 2 Hospital, 06202 Nice, France Department of Gastroenterology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Department of Clinical Medicine, University ‘La Sapienza’, Rome, Italy Department of Gastroenterology, Rabin Medical Center,...

Percutaneous endoscopic stomas for enteral feeding and drainage.

The use of safe and cost-effective endoscopic techniques for the placement of tubes in the gastrointestinal tract has led to increased utilization of long-term enteral feeding in patients with impaired GI function, including many cancer patients. Of an estimated 148,000 US patients who received long-term enteral feeding outside hospitals in 1992, 43% were cancer patients. The technique of percu...