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Phil's avatar

No reason the nurse should be liable

The CRNA and anesthesiologist should have recognized that the stomach needed to be decompressed before intubation.

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Luc Dark-Fleury's avatar

I'm surprised most commenters seem to fault the anesthesiologist/CRNA for not placing an NGT

(insert blame anesthesia joke here). In my experience this is the responsibility of the primary surgical team. That being said if a patient came to me who I thought needed an NGT prior to induction, I would absolutely not proceed until the surgical team had done so. I have yet to encounter a situation where the surgeons were not amenable to this after discussion.

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