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I'm not a drunk but if they stick one more NG tube down my nose I'm gonna go berzerk- Last time I was in hospital- they tried 5 times to get an NG tube down!!! Threw up all over the doc- finally they had to half knock me out & use a pediatric NG tube. Usually the NG tubes are put in while I'm knocked otu waiting for surgery- but twice I've had emergencies & I swear it's the worst thing ever!

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The faculty of my nursing program made us all put NG tubes down each other so we could get first hand experience at it and also have a better understanding of what the patient has to go through. It was very valuable experience.

And my mentor, a real poineer of nursing, taught me that if I just lifted the tip of the patient's nose a little bit, it made the NG catheter tip slip past the sinus and into the nasopharynx a little easier. It wasn't completely without discomfort, but there was a definite difference.

Slipping a NG tube down an unconscious patient has a lot of risks- the biggest one is trauma to the larynx and bronchi due to going down the wrong tube. The best way to do it is with the patient wide awake, sitting bolt upright, and swallowing a glass of ice water as the tube is advanced to keep the epiglottis closed over the trachea.