[wagglebee]

A lot of people are unaware that feeding tubes have been used for several hundred years. The main difference with today's is that we have synthetic materials that are less likely to cause infection and antibiotics for infections that do develop.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

True.

I’m just a Podiatrist, but when I was a resident on my General Surgery rotation, I did numerous peg tube placements with the general surgeon on the other side of the short procedure unit table (its so simple they don’t even use the OR to do them). It is an incredibly simple minimally invasive procedure. Its not rocket science.