for more training and widespread availability of gastrostomy replacement tubes. Replacement gastrostomy tubes are expensive and it is impractical to have every size and make available. In addition, attending staff need to know what size of PEG tube was removed / dislodged in order to replace a similar size and unfortunately this information is not always available. All attending professionals c...

A IRWAY control is one of the most important tenets of anesthetic practice. Asphyxia and tracheal laceration in infants are extremely rare, but life-threatening, complications. Despite many reviews in the literature regarding tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) and esophageal atresia, 4 no case of tracheal injury following the aberrant passage of a gastrostomy catheter has been reported. The presen...

Ostomy feeding remains a reference approach for enteral nutritional assistance. In Madagascar, the techniques are still conventional surgical procedures due to lack of adequate endoscopic equipment. This study aims evaluate benefits and risks nutrition with two-week follow-up. Included patients who had benefited from by tube using nasogastric, gastrostomy, jejunostomy tubes over six months in J...

Anaesthetic management of an infant with spinal muscular atrophy [Type 1] for fundoplication and feeding gastrostomy - IJCA- Print ISSN No: 2394-4781 Online No:- 2394-4994 Article DOI 10.18231/j.ijca.2023.044, Indian Journal Clinical Anaesthesia-Indian J Clin Anaesth

Introduction: Since the first classic descriptions of surgical gastrostomies for feeding by supraumbilical medial incisions, patients were operated under general anesthesia, with prolonged time of surgery, these were patients in poor health status, undernourished due to inadequate intake or to neurological or tumor involvement, with prolonged hospitalization, both for the recovery of the intest...