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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A surgical tracheostomy was inserted, and due to concerns about the safety of her swallow, a decision was made to place a fine bore nasogastric (NG) feeding tube at the bedside. During NG insertion, ...

Although all feeding tubes must have an ENFit® connector to reduce the risk of misconnection errors (see related Patient Safety Alert), wide bore drainage tubes do not, as the ENFit® connector at the ...