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Kaohsiung J Med Sci
September 2024
Department of Clinical Education and Training, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg
September 2010
Division of General Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan, ROC.
The knotting of an intragastric tube is a rare complication, and knotting of a feeding jejunostomy tube is rarer, and the removal or replacement of the tube is difficult. There are many reports on the removal of intragastric knotted tubes, but these methods cannot be applied for the removal of knotted feeding jejunostomy tubes, which do not have a natural orifice as large as the mouth to facilitate the introduction of instruments to correct the complication or remove the knotted tube. This is a stressful situation and doctors have to adopt strategies to resolve this problem safely and effectively in the absence of strong evidence-based knowledge.
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April 2008
St. Richards Hospital, Royal West Sussex NHS Trust, Chichester, West Sussex, UK.
Placement of nasogastric tubes (NGTs) for feeding and gastric decompression is common in major head and neck surgical cases, surgical wards and intensive care units, and rarely results in complications. Knotting of an NGT occurs infrequently with small-bore feeding tubes. This report shows that this can occur even with large-bore feeding tubes.
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