What is the most likely benefit of using PEG tubes for patients with dementia?

Despite these limitations, studies have shown that feeding tubes are of unproved benefit in ensuring adequate nutrition, preventing pressure sores, preventing aspiration pneumonia, providing comfort, improving functional status, or extending life in patients with advanced dementia.

Are the use of feeding tubes usually moral or immoral for Catholics?

The Church teaches that tube feeding is, in principle, ordinary care and hence morally obligatory.

What are the side effects of tube feeding?

The most common side effects of tube feeding are nausea, vomiting, stomach cramps, diarrhea, constipation, and bloating….Other possible side effects may include:

• Infection or irritation where the tube is located.
• Tube moving out of position or getting dislodged.
• Formula getting into the lungs.

Why is a nasogastric tube inserted during surgery?

By inserting a nasogastric tube, you are gaining access to the stomach and its contents. This enables you to drain gastric contents, decompress the stomach, obtain a specimen of the gastric contents, or introduce a passage into the GI tract. This will allow you to treat gastric immobility, and bowel obstruction.

Does PEG reduce aspiration?

PEG has not been shown to prevent aspiration of oropharyngeal contents. Furthermore, many patients have macroaspiration of gastric contents and tube feedings. Close monitoring of gastric residual volumes and holding feedings when high residuals are encountered may limit aspiration.

Can a Catholic refuse a feeding tube?

Under traditional Catholic teachings, patients may refuse medical intervention when anticipated burdens outweigh potential benefits. “Decisions are made case by case,” and that will continue, said Ron Hamel, senior director of ethics at the Catholic Health Association of the United States.

What religion is against tube feeding?

Jewish ethics is based on religious law, called Halacha. Many Halachic scholars perceive withholding nourishment in end of life, even enterally, as hastening death.

Which is better NGT or peg?

Conclusion: PEG is a better choice than NGT feeding due to the decrease in risk of pneumonia requiring hospital admission, particularly in patients with abnormal amounts of pooling secretions accumulation in the pyriform sinus or leak into the laryngeal vestibule.

Is there an alternative to an NG tube?

[Laparoscopic feeding gastrostomy: an alternative to the nasogastric tube]

What can go wrong with PEG feeding?

Most people don’t have any problems as a result of having a PEG tube inserted, apart from some discomfort for the first few hours after the insertion. However, minor problems can occur, such as infection around the skin where the tube has been inserted or some leakage from the site of the tube.