Gastrostomy Care Procedure. They are applicable across health care settings and are designed to provide. It s used to supply nutrition when you have trouble eating.
A tube that is left free to. It s used to supply nutrition when you have trouble eating. Make sure you can move your peg tube in and out of your stoma.
Surgically inserted gastrostomy tubes.
During the procedure a physician places an endoscope a long thin flexible instrument about 1 2 inch in diameter into your mouth. A peg tube is a soft plastic feeding tube that goes into your stomach. Surgery is performed either when the patient is under general anesthesia the patient feels as if he or she is in a deep sleep and has no awareness of what is happening or under local anesthesia. Feeding tube insertion is also called percutaneous.
