You’re treating an unresponsive 6-year-old child at the scene of a car accident who has required several minutes of artificial ventilation. Your partner notices increasing gastric distension, and you decide to place a nasogastric tube. After inserting the tube, you notice much greater resistance to ventilations and the child’s chest does not rise and fall with each artificial breath. Which of the following complications could have occurred?

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You’re treating an unresponsive 6-year-old child at the scene of a car accident who has required several minutes of artificial ventilation. Your partner notices increasing gastric distension, and you decide to place a nasogastric tube. After inserting the tube, you notice much greater resistance to ventilations and the child’s chest does not rise and fall with each artificial breath. Which of the following complications could have occurred?






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