EZJim

It's hard to get a handle on the numbers. On one tubie forum/blog, I found this guestimate
[quote]According to an article published in 2005, there were around 344,000 people using a feeding tube at home in the USA, and the article quoted a 1995 study suggesting that 120,000 patients in long-term care were using feeding tubes also. One thing we do know is that tube placements have continued to grow faster than the population, so it would be reasonable to think there might be half a million to a million people using feeding tubes in the USA alone right now.[/quote]
I'll see if I can come up with more recent numbers
Charm