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You are here: Home / Videos / PEG: How I do it

PEG: How I do it

 

Presented by John D Mellinger at the Panel: Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Enteral Access – How to Do It and How to Treat Complications held during the 2017 SAGES Annual Meeting in Houston, TX on Friday, March 24, 2017


Keyword(s): abdominal wall, acute care surgeon, aspiration, cervical approach, endoscope, enteral access, follow-up, gastric lumen, head and neck cancer, head and neck malignancies, introducer method, Japanese, laparoscopy, patient selection, PEG, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, Ponsky method, prophylactic antibiotics, pull method, resection, residents, Russell method, Sacks-Vine push method, safe tract technique, SLiC technique, snare, SQ tissue, stomach, stomach wall, subcutaneous tissue, T-fastener technique, teaching, technique, therapeutic endoscopy, tissue ischemia, tranesophageal, transillumination, trauma surgeon, trocar, tube dislodgement, tumor, visualization, wire

Enteral access kits–57 sec

Indentation/transillumination–1:20

Safe tract technique–2:03

Incision & infection prevention–2:39 Endoscopy 1999

Needle access, wire placement, reintroduction–3:45

Push method–4:40 Am J Gastroenterol 1988

Head & neck cx–5:17 Ann R Coll Surg Engl 2009

Clin Otolaryngol 2009

Am J Gastroenterol 2007

Introducer technique–5:57 Am J Surg 1984

T-fastener technique–6:41 Surg Endosc 2012

Introducer technique–7:51

Alternative techniques–8:47 Surg Endosc 2003

Surg Endosc 2006

Success rates–9:49 GIE 1993

Pearls–9:59

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Learning Themes
Flexible Endoscopy
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2017 Annual Meeting
Masters Level
200
Video Authors
Mellinger J
Video Institutions
SIU School of Medicine--Springfield IL

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