21. Doctors should recommend against feeding tubes for people with advanced dementia, Dr. Gillick said. 22. Dr. Gerald Einaugler had mistaken a dialysis catheter in the abdomen of an elderly patient for a feeding tube and ordered feeding solution pumped into the woman. 23. Doctors often place an external feeding tube directly into the small intestine, a procedure called a jejunostomy, to provide consistent nutrition during recovery and acclimatization. 24. Doctors say Scott needs a feeding tube to pump crucial nutrients into his failing body. 25. Eakes said the family would not announce to the public when the feeding tube would be removed. 26. Everyone thought he needed a feeding tube, but his private doctor, intelligent and experienced, insisted we feed him. 27. He marvels at their mouthparts, which are horizontal, then squeezed vertically to make a perfect feeding tube. 28. He receives nutrition through a feeding tube and requires continual assistance to help him breathe. 29. Her feeding tube is not extraordinary life support, not a futile gesture to sustain a life already lost. 30. He takes nourishment through a feeding tube. |