It is used when patients can’t get enough nutrition by eating. Feeding tubes can be placed surgically, endoscopically or by interventional radiology. Nasogastric Tube (NG): An NG tube passes through ...

2008;65(24):2347-2357. Administer medications via the oral route when possible. Determine the enteral feeding tube size (e.g., small bore or large bore), insertion site (e.g., nasal or ...

Historically, a typical patient was a male smoker ... “and require tube feeding for many months after treatment.” “Throat ...

At present suspected throat cancer patients are given an endoscopy in hospital. It involves swallowing a tube with a camera on the end. Delayed diagnosis is a major reason UK cancer survival rates ...

This common side effect of radiotherapy for head and neck cancer can, in some cases, leave patients needing a permanent feeding tube. DO-IMRT lowers the risk ... and hypopharyngeal cancers (tumours of ...

switch off life-support machines disconnect a feeding tube don't carry out a life ... although it's certainly true that the patient dies from lung cancer (or whatever), it's also true that the ...

Bob Wurtz is weary but walking. He beat throat cancer. Two neck surgeries. Countless lung infections. A tracheostomy and ...

The NHS has begun trialling a new iPhone adapter which can check whether someone has throat cancer. It is hoped the device will allow thousands of patients ... thin tube with a camera inside ...

An elderly Hong Kong man has been left in a critical condition after a feeding tube was wrongly placed in his airway in hospital, delivering a liquid laxative into his right lung rather than his ...

Officials hope the technology will cut the amount of time patients ... throat cancer are usually given an endoscopy. The procedure, carried out in hospital, involves a long, thin tube with a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A medical technology trial using iPhones in the detection of throat cancer is being undertaken by the NHS amid a surge of referrals creating waiting list backlogs. Nervous patients often have to ...