Surgical feeding ostomies are often required by nursing facilities for patients receiving enternal nutrition. Are nasal feeding tubes safer than feeding via ostomy? Yes. In this video, AJM Editor-in-Chief Dr. Joseph S. Alpert discusses new research that suggests guidelines requiring ostomies be reevaluated. You can read “Nasal Feeding Tubes Are Associated with Fewer Adverse Events than Feeding via Ostomy in Hospitalized Patients Receiving Nutrition” by Bowman et al in the January 2022 issue of the American Journal of Medicine at amjmed.com.
