| 11. | Traditional surgical approaches include gastrostomy followed by gastric pull-up, colonic transposition and jejunum transposition.
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| 12. | Evidence for the restoration of function includes decreasing gastrostomy tube returns and increasing discharge varies between procedures.
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| 13. | Gastrostomy, or G-tube, allows for tube feedings into the stomach through the abdominal wall.
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| 14. | A gastrostomy can be placed to decompress the stomach contents in a patient with a malignant bowel obstruction.
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| 15. | Many patients have a gastrostomy tube ( g-tube ) inserted for medication and / or feeds.
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| 16. | In certain situations where normal or nasogastric feeding is not possible, gastrostomy may be of no clinical benefit.
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| 17. | In 1858, he performed practically the first gastrostomy in England for a case of cancer of the oesophagus.
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| 18. | Fundoplications ( by preventing regurgitation ) and gastrostomy tubes ( to provide nonoral nutrition ) have reduced the frequency of hospitalization.
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| 19. | He proposed the operation of gastrostomy in cases of intussusception of the bowels, and introduced some improvements in surgical instruments.
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| 20. | Quality improvement protocols have been developed with the aim of reducing the number of non-beneficial gastrostomies in patients with dementia.
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