What is PEG?
Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy or PEG is a procedure in which a tube is placed percutaneously inside your stomach aided by and endoscopic procedure. This is a very common procedure these days that is used for patients who are unable to ingest food on their own i.e. move food from the mouth to their stomach. Hence patients who have undergone surgeries of the gastrointestinal tract or respiratory tract, patients with neurological disorders like stroke, brain injury and people with chronic or end stage cancer are those who usually undergo PEG. This endoscopic procedure is also used to achieve gut decompression which occurs in patients with gastrointestinal malignancies and also people with small bowel obstruction. Different variations of this technique are available like the pull technique, Versa, push and introducer method.
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