Troubleshooting a sump tube
| Autor: | Susan Surratt, Andrea Bourquin Ryan, Paula Hallenbeck, Paul H. Sugarbaker, Minette M. Blandon |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry Sucralfate Ice General Medicine Troubleshooting Suction Sump (aquarium) Surgery Gastrointestinal decompression Proper function Abdomen medicine Fluid Therapy Humans Tube (fluid conveyance) Clotrimazole business Intubation Gastrointestinal General Nursing Abdominal surgery |
| Zdroj: | The American journal of nursing. 93(1) |
| ISSN: | 0002-936X |
| Popis: | ow many times has this happened to you? Mr. S, who has had extensive abdominal surgery, puts on his call light and says that he has "green stuff" all over his gown and bed. The tube in his nose is leaking. As one nurse cleans up Mr. S, changing his linen and gown for the second or third time, you try irrigating, retaping, aspirating, regulating, redoing, undoing, and kicking the apparatus to return proper function. Mr. S, in his frustration, reaches up and pulls his nasogastric tube out. Patients like Mr. S must have an NG tube for gastric drainage. Complete gastrointestinal decompression is crucial to recovery. If the bile and gastric and pancreatic juices are not adequately removed from the GI tract, pressure builds and the bowel dilates. Eventual |
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