Response to the author on “Percutaneous Ultrasound Gastrostomy (PUG) overview updates” in response to our review on “An overview of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube placement in the intensive care unit (ICU)’’

[摘要] This letter is in response to the letter to the editor by Dr. Tropello on “Percutaneous Ultrasound Gastrostomy (PUG) overview updates” in response to our review on “An overview of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube placement in the intensive care unit (ICU)’’. While we applaud and congratulate Dr. Tropello and colleagues for developing this new innovative PUG, we have to respectfully disagree with their statement that it is a safe technique compared to traditional PEG technique. PUG is a relatively new technique and there are no good prospective randomized trials comparing the two techniques or good long term outcomes data and several issues need to be addressed before PUG can be deemed as a safe technique which we will discuss below.

[学科分类] 呼吸医学