Thinking Out‐of‐the‐box

Regional Anesthesia for Early Feeding After Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Placement

“…Reply: Aksu et al (1,2) made several excellent points in their response to the original article, “Tolerance and Complication Rates of Early Refeeding Within 6 Hours of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy in Children.” As the authors summarized, early refeeding has many benefits including reduced nutritional disruption and shorter hospital length of stay, yet many providers delay refeeding due to concern for postoperative nausea and vomiting.…”