Nursing · Postoperative Care
A patient is brought to the postoperative ward after an emergency gastric surgery with a nasogastric (NG) tube inserted for gastric decompression. Which characteristics of the NG tube drainage should the nurse identify as normal?
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- 1Measures a continuous volume of less than 20 mL per day
- 2Has an alkaline pH level
- 3Returns greenish-yellow in color✓
- 4Returns cloudy brown-liquid in color
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Returns greenish-yellow in color
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