PEG tube PERC G-tube J-tube malecot feeding tube X-tube Z-tube etc huh?

Can someone provide a brief list or summary of what kind of tubes are there and how/where they fall under certain categories?

I am in what seems to be a GI surgery unit (but the unit is consider a general surg) for my preceptorship and I've been encountering different tubes and tubes names/abbreviations on patients and on the cardexes/charts.

Please give me the full names instead of abbreviations. It's bad enough that abbreviations are abundant in a clinical setting and I always had to ask what they stand for...

Googling doesn't seem to yield me much unless I know exactly the full names.
A good place to look is the dictated operative report in the patient's EMR. If it is previously placed usually it is in the H & P. A few I do know are:PEG tube= percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubeJ-tube = jejunostomy tube G-tube= gastrostomy tube

malecot (malicot?) is a brand name of a tube - a manufacturer.feeding tube is pretty generic: could be OG, NG, GT, JT, etc.Not familiar with x or z - sorry.

This is a great thread! I have a question, anyone know why some nurses refer to JT as N-tubes? No one could answer as to why and they were confused when I said JT when that is clearly what is written in the emar to give Meds though.

A Dr told me that a PEG is a generalized name, that Gtubes and Jtubes are both PEG tubes. I have only seen G tubes so far so I have not had to look it up.

PEG is Percutaneous Endo Gastric tube (send camera/instruments down thru the mouth, esophagus, and into stomach, then pop out thru the skin - as opposed to a surgical incision on the abdomen adjacent to the gastric tube)....so PEG is about HOW it's placed. Some GT are PEGs but NOT ALL.GT = gastro = WHERE it's placed,JT = jejunem = WHERE it's placed

Have you looked in your textbook for this info under Gastrointestinal section?Nasogastric intubation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaChildren: Types of TubesAdults: NASOGASTRIC TUBE powerpointRadiology images + info: Enteral Feeding Tubes and Gastric Decompression Tubes

Quote from NRSKarenRNHave you looked in your textbook for this info under Gastrointestinal section?Nasogastric intubation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaChildren: Types of TubesAdults: NASOGASTRIC TUBE powerpointRadiology images + info: Enteral Feeding Tubes and Gastric Decompression Tubes