Tube feeding in palliative care: benefits and problems

Tube feeding in palliative care: benefits and problems

Boyd KJ; Beeken L

Palliative Medicine

1994

Female; Humans; Aged; Gastrostomy; Nutritional Requirements; Enteral Nutrition/methods; Palliative Care/methods; Nutrition Assessment; Terminal Care/methods; Weight Loss/physiology; Energy Intake/physiology; Laryngeal Neoplasms/physiopathology/radiotherapy

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy techniques are becoming more widely available and will be considered increasingly for patients with head and neck or upper gastrointestinal malignancies, and for neurological dysphagia, as occurs in motor neurone disease. This case history illustrates some of the practical and ethical issues raised by their use.

1994

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