Gastrostomy

Families caring for children with technology dependence are more likely to travel long distances for medical care, routinely bypassing closer hospitals to access facilities with more capabilities, researchers reported in Pediatrics.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Results of a systematic review and meta-analysis presented at the ACG Annual Scientific Meeting indicate that early feeding after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement is safe and may shorten hospital stay.

Certain factors may help predict which patients treated for head and neck cancer will require long-term gastrostomy tube use, according to study results.

Malignant bowel obstruction is a common and serious complication that occurs most frequently in patients with advanced gastrointestinal and gynecologic cancers.