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A forgotten nasogastric feeding tube that refuses to get out

Nasogastric tubes (NGT) are extensively used and generally harmless, yet loop formation and malpositioning are often reported especially when using thin NGT for enteral feeding which placed blindly; therefore, diligent follow‐up of NGT is required with confirmation of right placement, changing it to...

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Autores principales: Galanopoulos, Michail, Tsigaridas, Athanasios, Varytimiadis, Lazaros, Papaefthymiou, Apostolis, Kalampalikis, Lazaros, Ladias, Spyridon, Mantzaris, Gerassimos J.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5290497/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28174655
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.818
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author Galanopoulos, Michail
Tsigaridas, Athanasios
Varytimiadis, Lazaros
Papaefthymiou, Apostolis
Kalampalikis, Lazaros
Ladias, Spyridon
Mantzaris, Gerassimos J.
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Tsigaridas, Athanasios
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Papaefthymiou, Apostolis
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description Nasogastric tubes (NGT) are extensively used and generally harmless, yet loop formation and malpositioning are often reported especially when using thin NGT for enteral feeding which placed blindly; therefore, diligent follow‐up of NGT is required with confirmation of right placement, changing it to PEG if long use of NGT needed.
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spelling pubmed-52904972017-02-07 A forgotten nasogastric feeding tube that refuses to get out Galanopoulos, Michail Tsigaridas, Athanasios Varytimiadis, Lazaros Papaefthymiou, Apostolis Kalampalikis, Lazaros Ladias, Spyridon Mantzaris, Gerassimos J. Clin Case Rep Clinical Images Nasogastric tubes (NGT) are extensively used and generally harmless, yet loop formation and malpositioning are often reported especially when using thin NGT for enteral feeding which placed blindly; therefore, diligent follow‐up of NGT is required with confirmation of right placement, changing it to PEG if long use of NGT needed. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-01-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5290497/ /pubmed/28174655 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.818 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Galanopoulos, Michail
Tsigaridas, Athanasios
Varytimiadis, Lazaros
Papaefthymiou, Apostolis
Kalampalikis, Lazaros
Ladias, Spyridon
Mantzaris, Gerassimos J.
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title A forgotten nasogastric feeding tube that refuses to get out
title_full A forgotten nasogastric feeding tube that refuses to get out
title_fullStr A forgotten nasogastric feeding tube that refuses to get out
title_full_unstemmed A forgotten nasogastric feeding tube that refuses to get out
title_short A forgotten nasogastric feeding tube that refuses to get out
title_sort forgotten nasogastric feeding tube that refuses to get out
topic Clinical Images
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5290497/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28174655
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.818
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