The first of these two articles, published in last month's BJPN, discussed percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) in practice. This second article reviews 122 paediatric PEG procedures performed between 1998 and 2002 with the nurse as surgeon's assistant to a surgeon endoscopist.
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