ERQueen

Sometimes a physician will get a patient to sign AMA and then give them scripts anyway in our ER. I think this is for their liability. The AMA form states that the pt is leaving the hospital against the advice of a physician, and releases that physician and the hospital from liability if a bad outcome results from the pt not staying. That statement does not terminate further care if the MD still wants to help the pt out with symptomatic relief.

It sounds like our EWOL tubes. They are usually 34 French oral tubes, although our docs have putten them in nasally before... OUCH! It comes with a bite block, but it only takes one person to do the system. We only use them if it's a big overdose. After the tube is in we secure much like we secure ETT's. You attach the tube to a two-bag system. You hang the "in" bag on an IV pole and lay the "out" bag in the floor. From there you just clamp and unclamp until clear.

Are you talking about an EWOL vs. NGT?