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Darwish, Ahmed A. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5151-6267
Corbett, Philip
Louson, Ann
Whewell, Harriet
Griffiths, Mervyn
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Article History
Received: 11 March 2020
Revised: 28 May 2020
Accepted: 9 June 2020
First Online: 21 June 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors report no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: For this retrospective study formal consent is not required.
: Gastrostomy buttons are normally inserted in two stages; both stages require general anaesthetics (GA). The SPRING technique (Single stage, Percutaneous, Rapid INsertion of a Gastrostomy button) permits a single stage insertion of gastrostomy button under a single GA.
