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What is tube feeding?
Nutritional support is for people who cannot get enough nourishment by eating or drinking. You may need it if you You receive nutritional support through a needle or catheter placed in your vein or with a feeding tube, which goes into your stomach.
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Tubal ligation
A tubal ligation also known as having your tubes tied or tubal sterilization is a type of permanent birth control. During a tubal ligation, the fallopian tubes are cut or blocked to permanently prevent pregnancy. A tubal ligation disrupts the movement of the egg to the uterus for fertilization and blocks sperm from traveling up the fallopian tubes to the egg. A tubal ligation doesn't affect your menstrual cycle. Read more on
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Tube Feeding
When surgery or treatment for oral cancer affects the patient's ability to eat, a feeding tube is inserted to facilitate meeting nutritional needs. ... Read more on
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Feeding tube - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A feeding tube is a medical device used to provide nutrition to patients who cannot obtain nutrition by swallowing. The state of being fed by a feeding tube ... Read more on
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Aging: "Tube Feeding" — Right or Wrong: The Medical, Legal and ...
Patients should not be on tube feeding unless they are expected to requireit for more than 30 days. Read more on
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Facts on Dying 2004 - Information for Consumers - Brown University ...
Mar 25, 2004 ... Feeding tube may provide nutrition to people who have difficulty swallowing or unable to eat for medical reasons. A feeding tube is device ... Read more on
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Tube Feeding Tips - Oley Foundation Home Page
Nov 22, 2010 ... In addition to the tips and products mentioned below, tube feeders may find it helpful to review common complications of tube feeding ... Read more on
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FCA: End-of-Life Choices: Feeding Tubes and Ventilators
Sometimes a feeding tube may be the only thing keeping someone alive, for example, someone in the final stages of Alzheimer's disease. ... Read more on
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Enteral Feeding (Tube Feeding)
Enteral feeding refers to the delivery of liquid feedings through a tube. Enteral feeding, or tube feeding, is used for infants and children who have a ... Read more on
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Tube Feedings - Information About Tube Feedings as Cystic Fibrosis ...
Mar 17, 2009 ... Tube feedings can help meet your nutritional needs when you can't get what you need from food. Learn about the criteria that doctors use to ... Read more on
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Ectopic Pregnancy
Ectopic pregnancy affects about 1% of pregnancies. In a normal pregnancy, an egg is fertilised by sperm in a fallopian tube (the tubes connecting the ovaries to the womb). The fertilised egg moves into the womb, and implants itself in the womb lining, where it grows and develops. An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilised egg is implanted outside the womb. Read more on
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Feeding tube insertion - gastrostomy
A gastrostomy feeding tube insertion is the placement of a feeding tube through the skin and the stomach wall, directly into the stomach.
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Tubal ligation
Tubal ligation (or "tying the tubes") is surgery to close a woman's fallopian tubes. These tubes connect the ovaries to the uterus. A woman who has this surgery can no longer get pregnant (sterile).
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Gynecologic laparoscopy
Gynecologic laparoscopy refers to a group of procedures that use a small camera to examine the female reproductive organs. See also: Hysterectomy Pelvic laparoscopy Tubal ligation
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Sterilization surgery - making a decision
Sterilization surgery in women is called tubal ligation. In men, it is called a vasectomy. Many people in a long-term, monogamous relationship who have already had several children choose to have such procedures. However, some regret their decision later. The younger the man or woman, the more likely that this happens at some point in the future. Even though either procedure can occasionally be reversed, both must be considered permanent forms of birth control. There are other effective and long-term birth control options that are not permanent. Before making the decision to have a sterilization procedure, be sure to discuss all other options with your health care provider.
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Essure
Before you have the Essure system implanted your health care provider will likely: Review the risks and benefits of reversible and permanent methods of contraception, Ask about your reasons for choosing sterilization and discuss factors that could lead to regret, such as a young age or marital discord, Explain the details of the procedure, Discuss the causes and probability of sterilization failure, Reinforce that the Essure system can't be reversed, Discuss the need for you to use another method of contraception for three months following the procedure, or until tubal blockage is confirmed, Help you choose the best time to do the procedure
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Amylase - blood
Increased amylase levels may indicate: Acute pancreatitis , Cancer of the pancreas, ovaries, or lungs, Cholecystitis , Gallbladder attack resulting from disease, Infection of the salivary glands (such as mumps) or an obstruction, Intestinal obstruction , Macroamylasemia , Pancreatic or bile duct obstruction , Perforated ulcer , Tubal pregnancy (may be ruptured), Viral gastroenteritis, Damage to the pancreas, Kidney disease , Pancreatic cancer, Toxemia of pregnancy
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Amylase - urine
An increased amount of amylase in the urine is called amylasuria. Increased amylase levels may indicate: Acute pancreatitis , Alcohol consumption , Cancer of the pancreas, ovaries, or lungs, Cholecystitis , Ectopic or ruptured tubal pregnancy , Gallbladder disease, Infection of the salivary glands (mumps or an obstruction), Intestinal obstruction , Pancreatic duct obstruction , Perforated ulcer , Damage to the pancreas, Kidney disease , Pancreatic cancer , Toxemia of pregnancy
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Birth Control Permanent Methods
Sterilization is considered a permanent method of >birth control that a man or woman chooses. Although sterilization, or a tubal ligation, for women and vasectomy for men can sometimes be reversed, the surgery is much more complicated than the original procedure and may not be successful. Thus, when choosing a sterilization method you should not have thoughts of future reversal.
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Chlamydia
Untreated infection may lead to pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), which can cause scarring of the fallopian tubes and result in infertility. Tubal scarring also increases the likelihood of an ectopic pregnancy (tubal pregnancy).
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Endometriosis
Endometriosis can be mild, moderate or severe, and without treatment, it tends to get worse over time. Some women with endometriosis have no signs and symptoms at all, and the disease is discovered only when bits of endometrial tissue (implants) are found outside the uterus during an unrelated operation, such as a tubal ligation. Other women may experience one or more of the following signs and symptoms: Painful periods (dysmenorrhea). Pelvic pain and cramping may begin before and extend several days into your period and may include lower back and abdominal pain. Severity of pain isn't necessarily a reliable indicator of the extent of the condition. Some women with mild endometriosis have...
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