NG residuals

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What do you do with your NG residuals? Do you discard or push them back in?

We put it back in as well

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Specializes in Emergency Department.

Where I'm currently doing clinical, the policy is that any residual that's >200 mL is reinstilled and rechecked in 1 hour. If less than 200 mL, we can either reinstill the residual or toss it. Usually we reinstill the residual, even if it's

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