Abstract
Objective To accurately measure the length of naso-gastric tube for infants by adopting ap-propriate body surface measurement. Methods We chose 60 infants and adopted two methods to measure the length of tube,one was the new method by which we measured the distance from the middle of hair border of forehead to umbilicus and the other was the traditional method by which we measured the distance to xiphoid process from the same beginning point as the new method.Then we compared the results from the two methods with the actural length of the tube. Results The result of the traditional method was statistically different from the actural length of the tube (P ＜ 0.01 )But the result of the new method was near to the actural length of the tube (P＞ 0.05). Conclusions The result of the new measuring method was near to the actural length of the naso-gastric tube and was suitable to the infants.It reduced the adverse effect caused by the traditional method and improved the effect of diagnosis and treatment greatly.So we advocated to measure the distance from the middle of hair border of forehead to umbilicus as the length of naso-gastric tube. Key words: Infant; Naso-gastric tube; Length; Measure
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