Table 1.

PEG indications

Intensive care patients after trauma or surgery n = 101 (46 %)	Neurologic diseases n = 89 (41 %)	Malignant diseases n = 15 (7 %)	Others n = 12 (6 %)
Trauma, 43 (20 %)	CVD, 48 (22 %)	HNC 9 (4 %)
SDH, SAH 31 (14 %)	Alzheimer 26 (12 %)	Other 6 (2 %)
Aspiration pneumonia, COPD 27 (12 %)	Parkinson 12 (6 %) ALS 3 (1 %)

CVD cerebrovascular disease, HNC head and neck cancer, SDH subdural hematoma, SAH subarachnoid hemorrhage, COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, ALS amyotrophic lateral sclerosis