Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy/jejunostomy (PEG – PEG/J )

Gastrostomy is the procedure of placing a tube (a kind of pipe) into stomach through the front abdominal wall, and jejunostomy is placing the tube into small intestine (to jejunum, which is the middle section of small intestines). These tubes may be placed through endoscopy, X-ray or surgery. In our unit, the placement is performed with endoscopy. In this way, before placing the tube, abdominal region in gastrostomy and small intestine in jejunostomy are seen clearly and then the tube is placed. Thus, the tube is placed into the desired region.

THE PATIENT SHOULD BE FAST before the procedure. As the procedure is performed by hospitalizing you will be informed on the fasting period by the physician/nurse in the clinic. If you are an all-day visitor, please do not give anything orally to the patient, unless otherwise indicated.

Patients are made fall into sleep with intravascularly administered medications and so they do not remember anything about the operation after the procedure is done. After the operation, your physician will inform you when the patient can start eating. Please do not give anything orally or with tube beyond the knowledge of responsive physician/nurse. If the hospitalization do not due to different reasons, patient will be discharged within 2-3 days after patient/parents are trained about nutrition and ostomy care.