These feedings are given through a tube called a nasogastric tube (NG) that is guided into the nose, down the esophagus, and into the stomach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Treating Biliary Atresia] Reference

A small tube — called a nasogastric (NG) tube — will also be placed through your child's nose and passed into his stomach to help remove excess air and fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pediatric surgery: Meconium Ileus] Reference

Before surgery, a small tube — called a nasogastric (NG) tube — will be placed through your child's nose or mouth and down into the stomach to drain excess fluid and air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pediatric surgery: Small Bowel Atresia] Reference

A nasogastric feeding tube was inserted into the nose.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Wind Blows]

Encourage oral fluids; use nasogastric tube if necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Others inserted nasogastric tubes to feed and medicate the injured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Attack on the Liberty] Reference

(IV or nasogastric tube) for severe dehydration and rapid Rehydration needs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

That nurse is who tried to pass a nasogastric tube through my right nostril.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-03-01] Reference

Mrs. Browning was being kept alive in a nursing home via a nasogastric feeding tube.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Case of Theresa Schiavo] Reference

Adequate hydration, good nursing, nasogastric feeding and control convulsions with diazepam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 13] Reference

In hospitals, severely malnourished anorexics are treated with IV drips and nasogastric tubes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting Anorexia: No One To Blame] Reference

A 60-year-old man with acute pancreatitis developed persistent hiccups after insertion of a nasogastric tube.    From Wordnik.com.  [Open Thread: Medical “Facts” « Whatever] Reference

Nathaniel was unable to drink enough formula at first to keep growing, so he was fed partly by nasogastric tube.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nathaniel's focal disease was treated surgically at CHOP] Reference

There was a nasogastric tube draining fluid from his stomach and another tube draining fluid from the surgical site.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nathaniel's focal disease was treated surgically at CHOP] Reference

· ORS: for mild to moderate dehydration, give by mouth or by nasogastric tube if child unable or unwilling to drink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

Within a few weeks at home, he was able to eat normal amounts by mouth, and the nasogastric tube was no longer needed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nathaniel's focal disease was treated surgically at CHOP] Reference

Oral feeding, sip feeding, and feeding using nasogastric, gastrostomy and jejunostomy tubes are all enteral nutrition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biliary Atresia Glossary] Reference

A nasogastric (NG) tube, which passes through the nose and into the stomach, to help drain secretions from the stomach.    From Wordnik.com.  [After liver transplant surgery] Reference

However these techniques should not be encouraged, as they are less safe and no more effective than giving ORS by nasogastric tube.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

Some babies who take enough formula by mouth still need a continuous infusion of nasogastric dextrose to keep the blood sugar normal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Treatment] Reference

By morning, she had lost all instinct to nurse and a nasogastric (NG) tube was placed so she could be given milk without risk of aspiration pneumonia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liz O'Connell: You Can Bet on Little Larky] Reference

Child: 0.5 mg/kg rectally (use the injectable form) and inject by means of a syringe without a needle, if possible with the help of a nasogastric tube cut to 2-3 cm length.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

She was fed by a nasogastric tube and communicated with her parents, who divorced in around.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Demonstration of administration of a crushed medication through a patient's nasogastric tube.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

She crushed them together with a pestle and mortar and inserted them into Lynn's nasogastric tube.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Can be taken orally or via nasogastric tube; dilute solution to ≤ 20% concentration with water or juice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Before clearing thiothixene, retain your if you are nasogastric or blood to provide bulky during treatment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wii-volution]

My goal is to clip, trim his feet, pass a nasogastric tube, whatever, a horse with the lead shank on the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [TheHorse.com News] Reference

She became totally bedridden, losing her ability to swallow, which resulted in her being fed by a nasogastric tube.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

As the illness progressed she became bedridden, lost her ability to swallow and was fed through a nasogastric tube.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

I have a standing offer that if you can get a halter on one, I can pass a tube (nasogastric tube) without a twitch by myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [TheHorse.com News] Reference

This is pumped into the patient's colon using a colonoscope or endoscope, or siphoned into the stomach via a nasogastric tube.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference

In the early stages of treatment the person may also have a tube passed into the stomach (nasogastric tube) to prevent vomiting.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Nutritional needs are generally met via total parenteral nutrition, although in some cases a nasogastric tube is sufficient for feeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Find Me A Cure] Reference

Coleman's brother, Geoff, sent the Advocate an e-mail when he learned of the nasogastric feeding, calling it a "brutal and barbaric act.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hartford Advocate: News] Reference

· nasogastric tube: to observe if hemorrage continues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

He still has his nasogastric tube.    From Wordnik.com.  [sheepdip Diary Entry] Reference