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Aspiration is common after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG), prompting investigators in Japan to compare the incidence of aspiration during liquid versus semi-solid feedings after PEG. They retrospectively reviewed the records of 117 patients who had been receiving enteral feeding and subsequently underwent PEG. After three days of liquid tube feedings, 72 patients were given gravity infusions of liquid feedings and 45 received bolus feedings of semi-solid food. The two groups had similar baseline characteristics, as well as similar tube-feeding calories, water, and changes in parenteral nutrition. No cases of tube obstruction occurred.
Feeding-related aspiration pneumonia was significantly less common in the semi-solid feeding grou…