The removal of feeding tubes and respirators is not equivalent to "physician-assisted suicide."
Why should Missouri law specifically forbid the removal of feeding tubes but not other life-support devices?
T2 Medical provides home infusion therapy, supplying medication and nutrition, either intravenously or through feeding tubes, to patients in their homes.
Those means include, for example, not only feeding tubes but also an artificial heart and kidney dialysis.
Gastrostomy feeding tubes are put in for different reasons.
Respirators, cardiac resuscitation, feeding tubes, painkillers and antibiotics are usually among the treatments covered.
Placement of small bowel feeding tubes by the blind nasoenteric approach is technically challenging.
But as the discussion moved on to feeding tubes, Christy, without warning, burst into tears and ran sobbing to her room.
Some of the children she sees have debilitating illnesses that require medical equipment, like feeding tubes or respirators, just to survive.
In several cottages, residents require feeding tubes and wear diapers.