作者: T Sathesh-Kumar , Hazel Rollins , Sarah Cheslyn-Curtis
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摘要: INTRODUCTIONA small, but significant, number of children require long-term nutritional support. The aim this study was to demonstrate the safety and efficacy providing a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) service for in district general hospital raise awareness suitability procedure be performed on paediatric surgery lists similar hospitals across UK. PATIENTS AND METHODSA multidisciplinary nutrition team established all accepted PEG insertion between 1995 2007 were entered onto database prospectively are included study. tubes inserted by standard pull-through technique under anaesthetic. RESULTSA total 172 procedures 76 children. median age at first tube 3 years (range, 0.5–18 years). Length follow-up ranged from 1 month 12.6 years. Fifty-eight (76%) had neurological abnormality, commonest being cerebral palsy. All on...