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 ...

Through its core work to review recorded patient safety events, the National Patient Safety Team identified issues regarding a risk of aspiration when nasogastric (NG) tubes designed for a dual ...

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 ...

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

Abstract: There are two main enteral feeding strategies—namely nasogastric (NG) tube feeding and percutaneous gastrostomy—used to improve the nutritional status of patients with head and neck cancer ...

Introduction A 2011 Patient Safety Alert for nasogastric tubes (NGT) highlighted only 31% of junior doctors had received formal guidance or training on the use of chest x-ray (CXR) for confirming NGT ...

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 ...

A 62-year-old woman with history of frontotemporal dementia was admitted to a Psychiatry ward due to severe insomnia. In the morning, after the admission a nasogastric tube was placed to initiate ...

Through its core work to review recorded patient safety events, the National Patient Safety Team identified a risk of harm from the use of spigots (bungs) in nasogastric (NG) tubes. Nasogastric ...

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 ...

The author, date and country of publication, patient group studied, study type, relevant outcomes, results and study weaknesses of this paper is tabulated. It is concluded that there is no scientific ...