It is the name of the process of applying a feeding tube from the abdomen to the stomach in patients who cannot be fed due to difficulties in swallowing and head and neck tumors.
Reasons for application
It is used to provide nutrition in the presence of diseases that lose the ability to swallow (stroke, brain and nerve damage), upper digestive tract and respiratory tract cancers and surgeries
At the stomach outlet or It is also used to provide nutrition in cancer patients who cause obstruction in the small intestine.
When is it not applicable?
Conditions that should not be strictly applied:
Coagulation disorders
Septicemia
Intra-abdominal perforation
Hemodynamic disorders
Abdominal Inflammation of the membrane surrounding the internal organs
Absence of the stomach
Infection of the abdominal wall at the site of insertion
It can be applied if necessary:
Cancer in the esophagus
Large liver
Large spleen
Expansion of the vessels in the stomach
Enlargement of the liver vessels
Partial removal of the stomach
Complications
To sedatives intolerance
Heart problems
Infection at the applied site
Bleeding
Air leakage in the abdominal wall
Into the large and small intestines perforation of the neck
Stomach disorders in long-term users
Transient intestinal obstruction
Inflammation of the abdominal wall
