Ultrasound Helps Doctors Place Feeding Tubes Better and Safer
When critically ill patients need nutrition support, doctors sometimes place special feeding tubes that go past the stomach into the small intestine. This …
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Better Ways Hospitals Can Help Older Adults Get the Right Vitamin D
Hospitals often struggle with how to properly test and treat vitamin D deficiency in older patients. This study looked at two different improvement programs …
Read MoreLosing Too Much Weight Before Weight Loss Surgery May Backfire
A major study of over 1.3 million patients found something surprising: people who lost more than 10% of their body weight before bariatric surgery (weight loss …
Read MoreNew Guidelines Help Doctors Care for Liver Surgery Patients Better
European medical experts created new guidelines to help doctors take better care of patients before and after liver surgery. They reviewed hundreds of …
Read MoreHow Better Training Improved Childbirth Care in Low-Resource Hospitals
Researchers in Sri Lanka tested a program to improve how doctors decide when to induce labor (start labor artificially) and involve patients in decisions. Over …
Read MoreMany Hospital Patients Get Unnecessary Nutrition Tubes
Researchers looked at how often hospitals use a special type of nutrition support called peripheral parenteral nutrition (PPN) – basically liquid nutrition …
Read MoreHow Nursing Care Helps Stop Hospital Infections
Hospitals work hard to prevent infections that patients catch during their stay, but most focus on infections from medical devices like tubes and catheters. …
Read MoreRare Feeding Tube Complication: What Doctors Learned
This case report describes an extremely rare complication that occurred when an 83-year-old man had a feeding tube replaced. Instead of staying in his stomach …
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