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• TITLE: Safety of gastric lavage using nasogastric ryle’s tube in pesticide poisoning

  AUTHORS: Uday Bhan Bhardwaj, Anand Subramaniyan, Ashish Bhalla, Navneet Sharma, Surjit Singh

  KEYWORDS: Pesticide Poisoning; Gastric Lavage; Nasogastric Ryle’s Tube; Complications

  JOURNAL NAME: Health, Vol.3 No.7, July 18, 2011

  ABSTRACT: Objective: Gastric lavage is mandatory irrespective of nature in all patients with acute poisoning in India. Present study was undertaken with aim whether lavage done using nasogastric Ryle’s tube and small aliquots of water or normal saline is safe. Patients and Methods: All the patients above 12 years of age admitted consecutively with pesticide ingestion or exposure between July 2004 to June 2005 were studied with respect to complications associated with lavage using Ryle’s tube. Forty five patients were admitted directly to our hospital and lavage was undertaken using Ryle’s tube (16F ) with 100 - 200 mL of aliquots till 1 - 1.5 liters of fluid was lavaged, with prophylactic endotracheal intubation in patients with Glasgow coma scale ( GCS)