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Knotted nasogastric tube: a rare, overlooked yet preventable complication

Nasogastric tubes (NGTs) have long been used for various indications, most commonly to decompress the stomach of its contents in intestinal obstruction or after abdominal surgery, to provide enteral feeding or to allow enteral liquid medication administration. Recently greater importance has been gi...

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Autores principales: Monib, Sherif, ElKorety, Mohamed, Jibrin, Umar, Dhungana, Drishya, Thomson, Simon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6792117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31632636
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz290