Transnasal Endoscopic Placement of Nasoenteric Feeding Tubes: Outcomes and Limitations in Non–Critically Ill Patients

more recently, in patients with acute pancreatitis.5 There are limited data, otherwise, on its role in adult patients who are not critically ill. The placement of nasoenteric feeding tubes (NETs) remains a major obstacle to successful short-term postpy-loric feeding.6 Available insertion techniques consist of a bedside blind method, fluoroscopy-guided placement, and endoscopy-assisted placement, with the latter 2 tech-niques achieving the best placement rates.7-9 Most per-oral endoscopic techniques require an oronasal transfer step, which is cumbersome and time-consuming.10 The development of ultrathin endoscopes in the past decade has allowed examination of the upper GI tract using a transnasal route.11 With this approach, direct transnasal endoscopic placement of NETs was recently described