 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | Yes, my second PEG came with a sturdy plastic rectangle around it and the PEG-placer put several sutures in to hold it in place.
On my first followup visit to the nurse practitioner (a member of Dr Haakenslash's team, who follows me through the entire process, allowing the Docs to do the major blood 'n guts stuf), she removed the sutures saying that they got infected so often that she didn't bother to wait any more.
My first PEG in 2005 had no sutures.
Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.
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