• The feeding tube was analyzed amongst 31 patients. 
• 20 experienced complications that needed treatments. 
• 14 patients experienced inadvertent removal, broken or blocked tubes (45%). 
  • The treatment for this was to reinsert a new tube. 
• 2 patients experienced tube leakage (6.4%) and the treatment was conservative (such as physical therapy of going easy). 
• 2 more patients experienced dermatitis of stoma and 2 more experienced diarrhea both were treated with local care and conservative. 

Overall, the statistics of this experiment are what holds true to the general population when using the feeding tube. There are minor complications among patients but in general they are not fatal. 

Reasons as to why the 31 patients in the analysis needed the g-tube: 

• 12 patients needed it because they experienced cerebrovascular incidents
• 10 needed it due to head and neck cancers
• 7 needed the tube because of cancer in the upper GI tract
• 2 needed it because of cerebral trauma. 

Overall, the reasons for these patients needing the G-tube insertions are rather common amongst patients throughout the world who needed the feeding tube. However, another rather shocking statistic is the fact that young children often need the feeding tube if they are born with issues in their gastrointestinal systems. In fact 20 % of people who need feeding tubes are under the age of 18.