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A forgotten nasogastric feeding tube that refuses to get out
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Background and Purpose: Inserting a nasogastric tube, though a common clinical procedure with widespread use for critically ill patients, can produce unexpected complications so that tube misplacement into the lungs is a potential complication with serious consequences. The reliability of common bedside methods to differentiate between pulmonary and gastric placement has not been acceptable. Th...
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Nasogastric tubes are often inserted in intensive care settings, the emergency department and hospital wards. Common indications for nasogastric tubes are gastric decompression to palliate bowel obstruction, preventing aspiration in intubated patients and for the delivery of enteral nutrition or medication. A case of pneumothorax following nasogastric tube insertion in a 63-year-old neurosurgic...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: An International Journal Clinical Rhinology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0974-4630,0975-6965
DOI: 10.5005/jp-journals-10013-1069