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 http://.ahda.asn.au

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
Australian Association for Families with a Disability
Children's Disabilities Information
Core - Fighting Gut and Liver Disease
Patients on Intraveneous and Naso-Gastric Nutrition Therapy