Toward Understanding the Use of Gastrostomy in Critically Ill Adults - PubMed

Toward Understanding the Use of Gastrostomy in Critically Ill Adults - PubMed

Toward Understanding the Use of Gastrostomy in Critically Ill Adults

Aluko A Hope 1

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• PMID: 31149858
 
• DOI: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201901-042ED

Comment on

• Gastrostomy Tube Use in the Critically Ill, 1994-2014

  AC Law et al. Ann Am Thorac Soc 16 (6), 724-730. Jun 2019. PMID 31104470.

  Rationale: Although gastrostomy tubes have shown to be of limited benefit in patients with advanced dementia, they continue to be used to deliver nutritional suppo …

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