Basic & Clinical Medicine ›› 2014, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (12): 1732-1736.

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The application of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in severe neurological patients

1,Jun-ji WEI,Ren-zhi WANG,Jian-chun YU   

  • Received:2014-10-09 Revised:2014-10-21 Online:2014-12-05 Published:2014-11-25
  • Contact: Jun-ji WEI, E-mail:weijj1999@163.com

Abstract: A good and proper pathway which gives a nutrition support to postoperative severe neurological patients plays an important role in prognosis. Enteral nutrition is the best choice which is world-recognized for severe neurological patients. Nasogastric tube which is an traditional pathway provides enteral nutrition with a serious of complications, such like aspiration, catheter malposition, and infection. Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy has been more and more widely used in clinical work in recent years, and it can give post-operative patients of severe neurological diseases nutrition support with fewer complications and biliousness. PEG has been an ideal pathway to support nutrition to the post-operative of severe neurological patients who need a long-term nutritional support.

Key words: Severe neurological diseases, Enteral nutrition, Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy