Intraoperative wide bore nasogastric tube knotting: A rare incidence

Nasogastric tubes are commonly used in anesthetic practice for gastric decompression in surgical patients intraoperatively. The indications for its use are associated with a number of potential complications. Knotting of small-bore nasogastric tubes is usually common both during insertion and remova...

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Autores principales: Lamba, Sangeeta, Sethi, Surendra K., Khare, Arvind, Saini, Sudheendra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4767087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26957700
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0259-1162.164738
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author Lamba, Sangeeta
Sethi, Surendra K.
Khare, Arvind
Saini, Sudheendra
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description Nasogastric tubes are commonly used in anesthetic practice for gastric decompression in surgical patients intraoperatively. The indications for its use are associated with a number of potential complications. Knotting of small-bore nasogastric tubes is usually common both during insertion and removal as compared to wide bore nasogastric tubes. Knotting of wide bore nasogastric tube is a rare complication and if occurs usually seen in long standing cases. We hereby report a case of incidental knotting of wide bore nasogastric tube that occurred intraoperatively.
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spelling pubmed-47670872016-03-08 Intraoperative wide bore nasogastric tube knotting: A rare incidence Lamba, Sangeeta Sethi, Surendra K. Khare, Arvind Saini, Sudheendra Anesth Essays Res Case Report Nasogastric tubes are commonly used in anesthetic practice for gastric decompression in surgical patients intraoperatively. The indications for its use are associated with a number of potential complications. Knotting of small-bore nasogastric tubes is usually common both during insertion and removal as compared to wide bore nasogastric tubes. Knotting of wide bore nasogastric tube is a rare complication and if occurs usually seen in long standing cases. We hereby report a case of incidental knotting of wide bore nasogastric tube that occurred intraoperatively. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4767087/ /pubmed/26957700 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0259-1162.164738 Text en Copyright: © Anesthesia: Essays and Researches http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Lamba, Sangeeta
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Khare, Arvind
Saini, Sudheendra
Intraoperative wide bore nasogastric tube knotting: A rare incidence
title Intraoperative wide bore nasogastric tube knotting: A rare incidence
title_full Intraoperative wide bore nasogastric tube knotting: A rare incidence
title_fullStr Intraoperative wide bore nasogastric tube knotting: A rare incidence
title_full_unstemmed Intraoperative wide bore nasogastric tube knotting: A rare incidence
title_short Intraoperative wide bore nasogastric tube knotting: A rare incidence
title_sort intraoperative wide bore nasogastric tube knotting: a rare incidence
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4767087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26957700
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0259-1162.164738
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