My niece Caitlin arrived at Boston Children’s Hospital unconscious, unresponsive, with a 105-degree fever. She needed ...

inherited genetic disorder characterized by premature aging and neurological abnormalities – and required specialized medical care including a GJ feeding tube. She died on February 22 ...

A 4-year-old Virginia girl, Faith Johnson, died days after her feeding tube was dislodged at her special needs school. Her family says they were not immediately notified and believe the incident ...

She had been admitted four days earlier, on Feb. 18, following an incident the same day at NREP where her gastrojejunostomy (GJ) feeding tube, which she relied on for sustenance, was dislodged ...

We report how retrobulbar and intraconal plate placement with tube extension can avoid the ocular hypertensive phase, lower intraocular pressure, and reduce medication burden. Patients and methods: ...

Covering indications, placement techniques ... to understand what we have and when we should offer the proper feeding tube options.” He stressed, however, that all gastroenterologists should ...

Readers who work in acute-care hospitals know the routine that often results in PEG tube placements documented ... Decisions to place feeding tubes require a deliberative process that involves ...

Nasogastric (NGT) or orogastric (OGT) tubes are the primary mode of feeding in term born sick infants and preterm infants during the postnatal period. Incorrect tube placement in the respiratory tract ...

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Tube placement and administration of IV medication was done by ... such as signs of infant illness and how to handle emergency situations, feeding tube displacement and problems with checking the tube ...