After Schaivo - The Pope!

wolf · 03-30-2005, 12:28 PM

Usually PEG tubes are considered "ordinary care" and not "life support".

Naso-gastric feedings are a step below the PEG on the care scale, I believe. (We avoid patients with need for either, so I'm not entirely sure about this. As I like to point out to ER physicians I'm about to rip a new one for trying to medically clear a medically-unstable patient, "well, you're the doctor ... I learned all my medicine from watching ER. But before I get our doctor ... his crit's 13. What's he bleeding into? If you can't answer that question, you're not medically clearing this patient."

03-30-2005, 12:28 PM	#5
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Usually PEG tubes are considered "ordinary care" and not "life support". Naso-gastric feedings are a step below the PEG on the care scale, I believe. (We avoid patients with need for either, so I'm not entirely sure about this. As I like to point out to ER physicians I'm about to rip a new one for trying to medically clear a medically-unstable patient, "well, you're the doctor ... I learned all my medicine from watching ER. But before I get our doctor ... his crit's 13. What's he bleeding into? If you can't answer that question, you're not medically clearing this patient." __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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