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 ...

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 ...

Antiplatelet, thyroid hormone replacement and statin therapies were administered through a 14-French nasogastric tube (Nestlé Health Science) and enteral feeding was initiated. Correct position of the ...

Survey questions concerned belief that nasogastric tube insertion causes pain, measures reducing discomfort, and satisfaction with these procedures. The discomfort reducing measures listed included ...

His enteral nutrition was administrated through nasogastric tube. Upper endoscopy revealed active bleeding from a protruded lesion in the upper oesophagus. The lesion was removed by washing with a ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Tube feeding is usually recommended as an effective and safe way to supply nutrition in dysphagic stroke patients. Objective: To estimate the frequency of pneumonia in acute stroke patients fed by ...

The randomized phase II MAPS study showed that the prophylactic use of metoclopramide in patients with acute stroke fed with nasogastric tube was well-tolerated and could reduce the aspiration ...

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 ...