Tube feeding involves giving a liquid dietary formula through a flexible tube inserted into the digestive tract. It is used when patients can’t get enough nutrition by eating. Feeding tubes can be ...

To determine the effects of feeding modality on protein synthesis in different tissues, neonatal pigs received a balanced formula by orogastric tube as an intermittent bolus feed every 4 h or as a ...

The advent of total parenteral nutrition in the late 1960s meant that no situation remained in which a patient could not be fed. Unfortunately, total parenteral nutrition was complicated by serious ...