gastric or biliary tract surgery are candidates for nasogastric tube placement 1. The nasogastric tube provides a means to deliver calories and fluids and helps to rehydrate the stomach contents.

A nasogastric (NG) tube is a thin, soft tube that goes in through the nose ... When they do this short procedure, they: Inserting the tube into the wrong place is a risk of NG tube placement. That's ...

Nasogastric tube placement is a common procedure performed in surgical and medical specialities. The occurrence of knot formation is perhaps one of the least well-recognised complications associated ...

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 ...

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 ...

Introduction Nasogastric tube (NGT) insertion for enteral feeding is common practise ... The General Medical Council’s (GMC) guidance for undergraduate education, “Tomorrow’s Doctors (2009)” does not ...

Orogastric and nasogastric tubes are used for both decompression ... derived evidence to guide the performance of gastric tube placement and care in neonates. Much of current practice has been ...

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether routine nasogastric decompression with a nasogastric tube improved the process and outcome of care in adults with small bowel occlusion. 211 ...

The survey (see box) was designed by us and piloted with another physician group prior to administration. Survey questions concerned belief that nasogastric tube insertion causes pain, measures ...

a clean tube was secured to copper pipe holders and positioned to mimic the nasogastric tube placement for a patient in the supine position, as was done in the previously mentioned in vitro study.