article_snippet: If all of these options fail, a patient can have a new procedure which involves fitting a pacemaker device to encourage the stomach to process food.
article_snippet: If none of these options succeed in making the stomach process food, a patient will have to be fed through a tube.
article_snippet: Mrs Nichols was fitted with a gastro pacemaker, a metal device fitted in the abdomen to transmit electrical signals to the stomach muscles to get them working again.
article_snippet: Mrs Nichols has to be fed directly into Mrs Nichols bloodstream with total parenteral nutrition (TPN) - a specially made three-litre bag and pump that gives Mrs Nichols nutrients for 12 hours every night.