The difficult intraoperative nasogastric tube intubation: A review of the literature and a novel approach
Nasogastric tube intubation of a patient under general anesthesia with an endotracheal tube in place can pose a challenge to the most experienced anesthesiologist. Physiologic and pathologic variations in a patient’s functional anatomy can present further difficulty. While numerous techniques to the...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2014-03-01
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Series: | SAGE Open Medicine |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2050312114524390 |