Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatric Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Children's Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki-shi Aomori, Japan.
J Clin Ultrasound. 2021 Feb;49(2):106-109. doi: 10.1002/jcu.22958. Epub 2020 Dec 1.
Nasogastric tube (NGT) insertion is commonly performed in pediatric emergency care. Point-of-care ultrasound is used for confirming NGT insertion, but reports of its use in the pediatric emergency department (ED) are scarce. We describe our experience of ultrasound-guided NGT placement in a pediatric ED. The study pool consisted of twelve patients and the NGT tip was successfully visualized in the esophagus and gastric cardia in all cases, demonstrating that ultrasound has the potential to be a useful alternative to conventional methods of NGT insertion in the pediatric ED.
经鼻胃管（NGT）插入术在儿科急救护理中普遍施行。床边超声检查用于确认 NGT 插入，但在儿科急诊（ED）中应用的报道较少。我们描述了在儿科 ED 中进行超声引导的 NGT 置管的经验。研究对象为 12 例患者，所有患者的 NGT 尖端均成功显示于食管和胃贲门，表明超声有可能成为儿科 ED 中传统 NGT 插入方法的有用替代方法。
