Is It Normal for a Nasogastric Tube to Block Regularly In Intensive Care?

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Is It Normal for a Nasogastric Tube to Block Regularly In Intensive Care?

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Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care.

So, I had an email from a reader who says, “Is it normal that a nasogastric tube gets blocked in ICU on a on a regular basis?”

This is a reader who had their dad in ICU, for a few weeks in ICU, and he said that the nasogastric tube got blocked quite frequently. He said he went for long periods of times without feeds, potentially being malnourished because of that.

Now, it is definitely not common that a nasogastric tube gets blocked. So, nasogastric tube in ICU is usually used for enteral feeding, for nasogastric tube feeds so that nutrition can be maintained while a patient is either in an induced coma, on a ventilator, or even if they’re not ventilated but they can’t eat for whatever reason, that they can have nutrition, and meet their nutritional needs.

Now, when a nasogastric tube blocks, it is usually a sign that the medications that are given through the nasogastric tube are not crushed properly and that they’re not properly mixed in water. When you mix them in water, you got to make sure all their powder has gone.

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