Orogastric and nasogastric tubes are used for both decompression and feeding in the NICU. The placement and use of these tubes are one of the most frequent nursing procedures in the NICU.

The family of a Christian woman in the United Kingdom, who was removed from life support despite their objections, is ...

What Is a Nasogastric Tube (NG Tube)? A nasogastric (NG) tube is a thin, soft tube that goes in through the nose, down the throat, and into the stomach. They're used to feed formula to a child who can ...

If a rabbit is ill or will be undergoing certain types of surgery, it may need to be fed using a nasogastric tube. Nasogastric intubation is easy and is an effective means of delivering nutrition ...

a decision was made to place a fine bore nasogastric (NG) feeding tube at the bedside. During NG insertion, there was a significant amount of resistance felt at 20 cm from the incisiors. Despite this, ...

A team from Leeds Teaching Hospitals discuss the national rollout of a new radiographer-led nasogastric tube position check ...

Introduction Nasogastric (NG) tube feeding is an important component of nutritional care. However it has risks and introducing feed or medicines into the respiratory tract through a misplaced NG tube ...

You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways. Our patient required nasogastric tube (NGT) feeding for poor nutritional intake. He was alert ...

Pellet delivery was measured with a size 8 French polyurethane nasogastric feeding tube b (n = 5), size 14 French standard nasogastric tube c (n = 10), and a size 20 French silicon gastrostomy ...

In these patients, the placing of nasogastric tubes is often difficult or impossible. This study evaluated the efficiency and tolerability of a previously described new method for tube placing, which ...

Aims To explore nurses and guardians views, fears and knowledge about nasogastric tubes (NGT) use in children in a large African teaching hospital and to analyse the effect of interventions, an ...