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Usually PEG tubes are considered "ordinary care" and not "life support".
Naso-gastric feedings are a step below the PEG on the care scale, I believe. (We avoid patients with need for either, so I'm not entirely sure about this. As I like to point out to ER physicians I'm about to rip a new one for trying to medically clear a medically-unstable patient, "well, you're the doctor ... I learned all my medicine from watching ER. But before I get our doctor ... his crit's 13. What's he bleeding into? If you can't answer that question, you're not medically clearing this patient."
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