Consulting other services for "basic" skills

We had a very unfortunate case recently where a patient died of aspiration after an attempted NG tube placement. The events leading up to the aspiration caused a lot of discussion at our M&M. The patient clearly had an ileus and was vomiting and needed an NG tube. We asked the nurse to try, then the charge nurse when that wasn't successful. At this point we considered consulting general surgery for the NG tube placement, as none of us (urology residents) had any significant experience... Consulting other services for "basic" skills
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