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 ...

NG tubes are used worldwide as a means to provide enteral nutrition, and testing the pH of tube aspirates is commonly used to verify correct tube location. In the NHS, a pH reading of 5.5 or lower – ...

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 ...

Knotting or looping of nasogastric tubes when in situ can distress the patient on removal. Nurses should know how to recognise and respond to the situation This article discusses how looping or ...

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 ...