Talk:Nasogastric intubation

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[edit] What

What happens when a NG tube "doubles over in the stomach"? Is this common? Could it cause death?

I'm not an expert, but I don't think it would be very different from any of the other ways that a tube can get blocked. It would likely be uncomfortable and interfere with feeding. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:49, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Do you mean there's enough slack so that it folds over itself and gets a kink? It causes things to be blocked, yeah. It happened to me; all they did was pull the tube out far enough that the slack went away and it straightened out again. --24.46.164.83 (talk) 19:19, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Get out of my trachea!

http://www.npsa.nhs.uk/patientsafety/alerts-and-directives/alerts/nasogastric-feeding-tubes/ - rules in the UK for ensuring that the tube is indeed in the stomach and not in the lung. JFW | T@lk 05:14, 23 May 2008 (UTC)