Timing of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement in post-stroke patients does not impact mortality, complications, or outcomes

Table 4 Types of peri-procedural and post procedural complications

	Early PEG group	Late PEG group	Analysis value (P) Fisher’s exact
Peri procedural complication
Pulled PEG tube	0	1	1
Pulmonary edema	0	1	1
NSTEMI	0	1	1
Bleeding	0	4	0.15
Pneumonia	1	1	1
Evolving stroke/herniation	1	0	0.4
Post procedural complications
Aspiration	8	14	0.69
Pneumonia	10	16	0.84
Bleeding	2	2	1
Buried bumper	1	0	0.4
Cardiac arrest	2	1	0.57
Death	7	8	0.59
Ileus	0	1	1
Infection	5	4	0.49
Necrotizing pancreatitis	0	1	1
Pulled PEG tube	3	9	0.36
Pulmonary embolism	0	3	0.27
Respiratory failure	1	3	0.65
Seroma	1	0	0.4
Stroke	1	2	1

PEG: Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy; NSTEMI: Non-ST elevation myocardial infarction, Significant P values are in bold.