Twenty-eight patients have died across hospitals in England after NHS staff wrongly inserted feeding tubes into their airways. Tube feeding, also referred to as artificial feeding, is a way of ...
Nearly 30 patients have died after blundering NHS staff misplaced feeding tubes into their airways, MailOnline can reveal. Over the past five years, 145 incidents of wrongly inserted nasogastric tubes ...
A retired ambulance worker suffered a 'slow and painful' death after medics failed to notice they accidentally put a feeding tube into her lung for more than 10 hours, an inquest has heard. Maura ...
NHS staff have told a safety watchdog rules on how to avoid mistakenly putting a feeding tube into patients’ lungs are “too long to read”. The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch revealed some NHS ...
Considering lung collapse (pneumothorax) affects 2-5% of 35 million feeding tube placements every year worldwide, the safe placement of a nasogastric feeding tube requires special medical care.
This is the second of two articles on nasogastric tube insertion, which explains the procedure for adults. This is a Self-assessment article and comes with a self-assessment test NT Self-assessment ...
There have been 145 incidents of wrongly inserted nasogastric tubes in hospitals in England over the past five years - and 28 of these ended in the patient's death Across hospitals in England, 28 ...
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