What is "nasogastric"

Usage examples of "nasogastric".

Desitin on her diaper rash, cool her forehead with a moist washcloth, suction her secretions, and feed her formula through a nasogastric tube.

The nasogastric tubing, ripped out of position with a small spray of blood, jittered against the bedguard.

To nourish her, she was given Pedialyte and Osmolite through a nasogastric tube.

She had a little color in her face, and the nasogastric tube that had been bothering her had been removed.

Sara and I sat outside in the waiting-room, exhausted and frayed and scarcely speaking to each other, Jonathan lay white and silent on his bed, the left side of his face heavily bandaged, a nasogastric tube taped to his right nostril, and electrode leads in his arms.

I stayed with him several nights in a row, continuously irrigating his stomach with iced saline, and pulling out the nasogastric tube when it got clogged and pushing it back in.

I was lucky enough to pass a nasogastric tube down through the anastomosis and into his small intestine.

I told the nurse to get a nasogastric tube, and meanwhile I hooked up the EKG machine.

The nurse had returned with the nasogastric tube before I finished with the EKG.

His stomach was badly dilated, and I evacuated almost a pint of fluid and a bunch of gas by putting down a nasogastric tube.

He was attached to nasogastric tubes, a drip, an oxygen sensor, ventilator.

Sensations accompanying do-it-yourself nasogastric tube removal unlikely to find place in catalog of experiences without which life is not complete.

Ray was lying there today as if awaiting his embalmers, his head wrapped in pristine cotton, eyes shut, mouth agape, spaghetti-thin nasogastric tubing running into one taped-down nostril.

They're still working on her, lavaging her stomach, the whole bit you went through with the nasogastric tube, the oxygen up the nose, and the rest.