Inadvertent insertion of a nasogastric tube into both main bronchi of an awake patient: a case report

The use of nasogastric tube is desirable for the short-term administration of calories when oral feeding is not possible. Although the insertion of nasogastric tubes has been described as being easy this is not without risks. An unusual case of malpositioning of a fine bore nasogastric tube into bot...

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Autor principal: Takwoingi, Yohanna M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829883
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-6914
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description The use of nasogastric tube is desirable for the short-term administration of calories when oral feeding is not possible. Although the insertion of nasogastric tubes has been described as being easy this is not without risks. An unusual case of malpositioning of a fine bore nasogastric tube into both main bronchi in a patient that was awake is reported. Respiratory complications of misplaced nasogastric tubes and the importance of a check chest x-ray following tube placement are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-27403072009-10-14 Inadvertent insertion of a nasogastric tube into both main bronchi of an awake patient: a case report Takwoingi, Yohanna M Cases J Case report The use of nasogastric tube is desirable for the short-term administration of calories when oral feeding is not possible. Although the insertion of nasogastric tubes has been described as being easy this is not without risks. An unusual case of malpositioning of a fine bore nasogastric tube into both main bronchi in a patient that was awake is reported. Respiratory complications of misplaced nasogastric tubes and the importance of a check chest x-ray following tube placement are discussed. Cases Network Ltd 2009-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2740307/ /pubmed/19829883 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-6914 Text en © 2009 Takwoingi; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Inadvertent insertion of a nasogastric tube into both main bronchi of an awake patient: a case report
title Inadvertent insertion of a nasogastric tube into both main bronchi of an awake patient: a case report
title_full Inadvertent insertion of a nasogastric tube into both main bronchi of an awake patient: a case report
title_fullStr Inadvertent insertion of a nasogastric tube into both main bronchi of an awake patient: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Inadvertent insertion of a nasogastric tube into both main bronchi of an awake patient: a case report
title_short Inadvertent insertion of a nasogastric tube into both main bronchi of an awake patient: a case report
title_sort inadvertent insertion of a nasogastric tube into both main bronchi of an awake patient: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829883
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-6914
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