Talk:Gastric intubation

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)

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)

Plan of Expansion: Add troubleshooting
I was wondering if we could expand this article up a bit. Everything had been documented except for troubleshooting, for example, what must medical practitioners (ex. nurses) do if there is nasal obstruction, Failure of Tube to Pass Into Esophagus / Curling of the Tube, if patient is unconscious, etc.

Ursa Gamma 14:44, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Removal of self-insertion study information
I just removed user:Dquilliot's content from this article, Nasogastric intubation, and also from Feeding tube. Here are the edits-
 * Nasogastric intubation
 * feeding tube

These contributions were taken from this source

which was a study of 66 people. By the guidelines at WP:MEDRS, it is preferred that Wikipedians cite secondary sources like review articles or systematic reviews rather than WP:PRIMARY sources like a single small study. The study cited was a pilot study and whatever it found is not information which has broad consensus as being a best practice.

I do think this study ought to be cited, but not in such detail, and the content should not be replicated in two places. I deleted the information entirely from feeding tube, but did link the section on Nasogastric intubation to this article as the main article, and I shorted the information presented here from a complete summary of the abstract to a simple assertion of the idea that self feeding is possible. If this information were to have a home on Wikipedia, then possibly that could be done under the highly specific article heading Research on nasogastric intubation if other sources were found also, but I think that this information is inappropriate for inclusion here. Thoughts?  Blue Rasberry   (talk)   19:27, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
 * The user who added this wrote to me on my talk page and I replied there asking for a source which meets WP:MEDRS.  Blue Rasberry    (talk)   14:50, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Orogastric intubation merge..
I propose that Orogastric intubation be merged into Nasogastric intubation. I think that Orogastric intubation can easily be explained in the context of Nasogastric intubation. GremlinSA 06:53, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Excellent idea. I only put that stub there so that there would be something on the other end of a link, and a merge would still achieve that and would also make it more informative. User:GKFXtalk 16:35, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * done.. It may require a bit more cleanup.. GremlinSA 06:32, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Ryle's tube
There also appears to be a type of nasogastric tube known as the Ryle's tube. It's possibly synonymous with the Dobhoff tube. Can somebody (with greater familiarity with this subject) please look into this? Incidentally, Dubhoff appears to be an alternative spelling for Dobhoff. Thanks.--Cpt.a.haddock (talk) (please ping when replying) 12:02, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

Requested move 24 September 2020

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Not moved - it appears the suggested name talks about a medical instrument, not the procedure. (non-admin closure) ItsPugle (please ping on reply) 08:27, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Nasogastric intubation → Nasogastric tube – Move to by far the more common title (ngram) Tom (LT) (talk) 07:57, 24 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Oppose - its less an issue of term usage, but rather that the proposed title narrows the subject to the medical instrument rather than the procedure. The current article is more broadly about the procedure, and I think that's what we'd want it to be. We already have an article on feeding tube instruments, so this title/scope change would also be very redundant. -- Netoholic @ 08:25, 24 September 2020 (UTC)


 * The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

BMS
Nasogastric tube 197.220.84.99 (talk) 16:37, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: MEDU 9330 - Expanded WikiProject Medicine
— Assignment last updated by Annpharris (talk) 17:27, 21 December 2023 (UTC)


 * I am planning to add citations and expand the complications section of this article to begin. ShakaluMD (talk) 19:37, 19 December 2023 (UTC)