EM Quick Hits 31 NG Tubes in SBO, Hyperacute T-Waves, Malignant Otitis Externa, CCTA in NSTEMI and Low-risk Chest Pain, Canadian Syncope Score
Emergency Medicine Cases
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Introduction
The use of NG tubes to decompress the stomach in small bowel obstruction seems to have originated back in the 1920s. A case series from an era before CT, an era with a mortality of 40%, that's not really the best evidence to base modern practice on. EM Cases is part of Shremi, the Schwartz-Rizeman Emergency Medicine Institute.
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