PMC1941903_01
Complications and practice of gastric lavage. Restraint of a patient during gastric lavage.. A patient with pesticide poisoning is tied to the trolley; two relatives hold him down. An attendant holds his mouth open with a pair of large metal forceps to prevent him biting the tube; a nurse pours fluid into the funnel. This stopped when the patient vomited fluid.. A blood stained fluid level can be seen in the ET tube after the death of the patient presented in Case Report 2; fluid continued to drip from the tube for more than 30 minutes.. (Consent for the photographs was obtained retrospectively from the patients in A & B, and from the patient's father in C. Copies are held by the journal.)
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At his death, a fluid level was visible in his ET tube; water dripped from the tube for more than 30 minutes (figure 1).