Concerns about supply, dosing and blenderized diets are delaying the U.S. transition to a new standard for feeding tube connectors. The sweeping series of ISO 80369 standards were developed to prevent ...

Adverse outcomes caused by enteral tubing misconnections are well documented in The Joint Commission’s Sentinel Event Alert from August 2014 that states “Tubing misconnections continue to cause severe ...

Around 444,000 people in the U.S. use gastrostomy tubes, but they come with significant risks and hassles. High-tech G-tubes could change that. Around 440,000 people in the U.S. use a gastrostomy tube ...

Dominick Pacheco has been getting his nutrition through a feeding tube for most of his life. “We've been doing the feeding tube since he was two years old,” said his mom, Salem resident Laura Pacheco.