A new study measured use of feeding tubes in Canadian nursing home residents, finding similar trends to those in the United States. Many people with advanced dementia have a hard time eating, but ...

For patients with advanced dementia, eating, and in particular swallowing, is difficult. Certain types of doctors are more likely than others to insert gastric feeding tubes into patients with ...

Providers should take extra precautions when using feeding tubes, according to new guidance from the Food and Drug Administration. Concerns stem from the use of enteral feeding devices, which are ...

Congress has chosen to weigh into what is a local issue of feeding tubes. We should remove Congress’ feeding tube. The public’s feeding tube, after retirement, is primarily Social Security. When ...

Although several guidelines now recommend against the use of feeding tubes in patients with advanced dementia, the type of physician attending those patients may determine whether current ...

Research reveals drawbacks of using feeding tubes in patients with advanced dementia: Often requires restraint — either physically or with sedation — to prevent them from pulling their tubes out. This ...

It's likely that you've seen someone with a feeding tube at one time or another. The nasogastric feeding tube was created to deliver nutrition to sick and hospitalized people so they wouldn't starve.

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses has updated its Practice Alert for feeding tube insertion and created a new Practice Alert covering aspiration prevention practices for tube-fed ...

ST. PAUL -- Almost a year after the nation watched Terri Schiavo die after being taken off a feeding tube, Minnesota legislators on Tuesday opened a raw debate over how to handle incapacitated ...

Studies have failed to show the benefits of using feeding tubes in patients with dementia, and expert opinions have increasingly been against the practice. Following that trend, a study in JAMA showed ...

The study comes "amid growing empirical data and expert opinion" that the use of feeding tubes has no health benefit and "may be associated with increased risks and discomfort," Mitchell said. Sandra ...

The use of feeding tubes in elderly nursing home patients with severe dementia declined by as much as 50% between 2000 and 2014, reflecting policies that follow recommendations discouraging the ...