Description of Event or Problem · 0
PATIENT HAD NASOGASTRIC TUBE (NGT). NOTED TO HAVE EPISODES OF NGT BEING CLOGGED, EVENTUALLY FLUSHED/CLEARED WITH SODA. HE VOMITED THE TUBE OUT AROUND DAY +4; PER PARENTS REPORT IT WAS NOTED THAT THE TIP OF THE NGT SEEMED FLAYED AT THE END. HE HAS HAD SUBSEQUENT NGTS. APPROXIMATELY 12 DAYS LATER, HE HAD A X-RAY TAKEN FOR PLACEMENT OF ANOTHER NGT. RADIOLOGY REPORT COMMENTED THAT THERE APPEARED TO BE A PART OF A TUBE THAT MAYBE EXTERNAL TO THE PATIENT. FOLLOW-UP X-RAY CONFIRMED THAT HE HAD A PIECE OF NGT IN HIS SMALL INTESTINES. THE PATIENT HIMSELF HAS HAD ABOUT 48 HOURS OF STRAINING AND SEEMING UNCOMFORTABLE WITH STOOLING. APPROXIMATELY 3 DAYS LATER , THE PATIENT UNDERWENT A COLONOSCOPY WITH GI, WHERE PROVIDERS WERE UNABLE TO RETRIEVE THE OBJECT FROM THE PATIENT'S SMALL INTESTINE. THE PIECE WAS EXTRACTED IN THE OR VIA LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY.