Learn about the risks and benefits of a nasogastric tube in addition to tips for successful tube feeding. Understanding Nasogastric Tubes. ... or a nose bleed. Once you stop using an NG tube, ...

For nasal feeding tubes, insertion is a rapid procedure that can be done at a hospital bedside. The tube will be lubricated to help slide down your throat, but anesthesia is typically unnecessary.

Feeding tubes deliver nutrition, hydration, and medication directly to a person’s stomach or intestines. A healthcare professional will insert it through the nose, mouth, or abdomen.

After two hospitalizations and a tracheotomy for respiratory difficulties, Pope John Paul II is being fed by a tube inserted though his nose, a Vatican spokesman said Wednesday. (Full story) ...

John Paul II was getting nutrition through his nose, the Vatican said Wednesday, and Italian media reported he might have an abdominal feeding tube inserted.

VATICAN CITY — In another sign of Pope John Paul II's growing frailty, the Vatican said Wednesday that the 84-year-old pontiff was getting nutrition from a tube in his nose and acknowledged his ...

c. 2005 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ Pope John Paul II on Wednesday (March 30) had a plastic feeding tube inserted into his nose, down the back of ...

When your baby is in the hospital, medical staff handle inserting the tube into your baby’s nose for feeding. But if your baby needs to go home with a tube, it’s important to learn the ...

As the tube moves through the nose or mouth (90% of feeding tubes enter through the nose) to the esophagus into the stomach or small intestine, electromagnetic navigation displays on a computer screen ...