GISS Resources

Useful books, videos, web links and references are available here. If you know of a good resource not included please contact us so it may be included.

Books

GASTROSTOMIES: All you need to know. A booklet produced by the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. Currently out of print

Mothers’ Experiences Caring for Children With Disabilities Who Require a Gastrostomy Tube. Spalding, K & McKeever, P.

Tube Feeding at Home: For Gastrostomy or Jejunostomy Tube Feeding, Montgomery, P. (2002)

Swallowing Difficulties and Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrosotomy (Peg Feeding) Produced for the Huntington Disease Association (Inc.) Western Australia.

Home Tube Feeding Instructions. Home Nutrition Service. Gastrostomy Care – A Guide To Practice, Edited Catherine Barrett, Ausmed Publications 2004

Articles

Use of tube feeding to prevent aspiration pneumonia, Finucane, TE & Bynum JP. (1996), Lancet, 348:1421-4

Enteral long-term nutrition via percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) in 210 patients: a four-year prospective study,  Loser C, Wolters, S, & Folsch, UR. (1998), Digest of Disability Science, 43:2549-57

Long-term enteral feeding: a retrospective comparison of delivery via percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy and nasoenteric tube, Fay, DE, Poplansky M, Gruber M, & Lance P. (1991),  American Journal of Gastroenterology, 86:1604-9

Long-term follow-up of consequences of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tubes in nursing home patients, Kaw, M, & Sekas, G. (1994), Digest of Disability Science, 39:738-43

Practical considerations of the gastrostomy button, Townsend, LC. (1991), Gastroenterology-Nursing, 14:18-26

PEG – Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, Kyle, H. (1996), British Journal of Theatre Nursing, 6: 27-30

Web Links

The Oley Foundation
Health Insite
Gastroenterological Society of Australia
Children's Disabilities Information
Core - Fighting Gut and Liver Disease
Patients on Intraveneous and Naso-Gastric Nutrition Therapy