Major deficiencies in artificial feeding, inquiry finds

Summary

Artificial feeding; to absorb food via a tube. The report from the National Confidentional Enquiry showed that major problems have been found in the way hospitals provide artificial nutrition. A lot of complications could have been avoided if it was done right, for example giving the amount of food to babies. Other problems were putting patients unnecessarily at risk. NCEPOD chairman Bertie Leigh said: "It is deeply depressing that the quality of care is so often unsatisfactory. Indeed, in discussion with the NCEPOD steering group the scale of disappointment verged on disbelief." Watchdog NICE has been asked to develop guidelines on nutritional support for newborns.

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I thought we were living in the “modern world”. Of course we have all this new technology and appliances that we first would not even dare dream of, but in order to stay in the “modern world” we need to know how to work with it. You should not use something if you are not sure, especially if it is unnecessary. I think that hospitals should get a kick in the ass and start pulling up their socks otherwise we might just die of something that was invented to save our lives.