babies in the ER

[ERERER]

question: we took care of a critically ill newborn (6 days old). passed an NG tube (size verified by Broselow tape) to decompress abdomen. Our "esteemed" ER doc says never pass an "NG" tube, you must pass it orally. made us remove a perfectly functioning tube and pass it orally, wherein the baby played with it with her tongue until it came out. I can't find any supporting evidence in my resources, anyone have any thoughts???? :

[chip193]

We do NG and OG on little ones...depends on whether there's an ET as well.

Chip