Replaceable Jejunal Feeding Tubes in Severely Ill Children

Table 1

Complications after RJFT placement.

Postoperative complications
Complications necessitating surgical intervention (volvulus, ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection, or small bowel obstruction)	3
Guide thread erroneously cut	1
Local skin infection at jejunostomy	5
Blockage of feeding tube due to incrustations	2
Dysfunction caused by kinking of feeding tube	2
Persistent jejunal fistula in an immunocompromised child suffering from Fanconi anemia and GvHD	1
Total	14

one child (patient 7), a nurse erroneously cut off the guide thread and the jejunal tube fell off. We inserted a new tube connected to a new guide thread by an endoscopically assisted procedure [26].