Safety and effectiveness of the nasal bridle securement device to retain feeding tubes in adult patients in the intensive care unit: An observational study.

BACKGROUND: Nasal bridle securement devices were introduced to our adult intensive care unit (ICU) in October 2016 as an alternative for securing small-bore feeding tubes in patients at higher risk of inadvertent tube dislodgement. METHOD: We assessed high-risk ICU patients from October 2014 to March 2019 to address three objectives. First, we prospectively monitored ICU patients with a nasal bridle for all types of adverse events. Second, we used propensity score methods to create a (1:1) matched historical comparison group (ie, tape group). We then compared the number of inadvertent tube dislodgements and the caloric intake between the tape and nasal bridle groups. RESULTS: In the prospective group (n = 64), there were 20 adverse events, 12 of which were inadvertent tube dislodgements. Forty-eight participants in the nasal bridle group were matched with participants in the historical group. Thirty-five percent (17/48) of patients in the tape group had at least one inadvertent tube dislodgement; in the nasal bridle group, 48% (23/48) had at least one inadvertent tube dislodgement, although this only occurred in 7 of 48 (15%) patients after the nasal bridle had been inserted. The tape group achieved a lower median percentage of total caloric intake received (66.0%) compared with that of the nasal bridle group (86.1%; P = 0.017). CONCLUSIONS: In the subpopulation of ICU patients with a small-bore feeding tube who demonstrate a higher risk of inadvertent tube dislodgement, use of the nasal bridle may be associated with a higher caloric intake, even though it does not completely prevent tube dislodgement.

Extraction of Aural Foreign Bodies in a Rural Setting: 10-Year Review and a Novel Method to Remove Magnetic Stones.

BACKGROUND: The external auditory canal's unique anatomical characteristics made the presence of foreign bodies (FBs) a clinical challenge, particularly in rural settings without ready access to tertiary care and specialist intervention. AIMS: Our study surveys the experience in aural FBs surgical management in a rural Australian tertiary center. It proposes a safe, easy, and affordable technique to remove stones from the ear canal. METHODS: We have completed a 10-year retrospective surgical chart review, including 474 patients (52 adults and 428 children) requiring surgical management to remove aural FBs at the Royal Darwin Hospital, Northern Territory, Australia. We surveyed for patient demographics, foreign-body description, complications, location, and removal attempts. We identified what factors determine the need for surgical management and propose a technique for a safe, uncomplicated, and affordable removal of stones from the ear canal after applying this method in a small subgroup. RESULTS: The most common FBs requiring surgery in children were stones. A predominance in the Aboriginal population from remote communities was found, leading to a nasal bridle magnet technique to remove stones in rural settings. This method reduces the number of extraction attempts of the most frequent FB found in children's ears, aiming to minimize complications, negative experiences, and health cost. CONCLUSION: Contrary to international literature, stones were found to be the most common FB in remote aboriginal populations. The proposed technique reduces the number of extraction attempts of the most frequent FB found in children's ears, aiming to minimize complications, negative experiences, and health cost.

Evaluación del uso de la brida nasal en la práctica habitual / Evaluation of the use of nasal bridle in clinical practice

Introducción: la brida nasal (BN) es una de las estrategias para evitar el desplazamiento de las sondas para nutrición enteral (NE) utilizadas en el curso de una intervención nutricional. Objetivos: revisar la eficacia y la seguridad de la colocación de la BN en una población de pacientes que precisan NE por sonda. Analizar sus características clínicas e identificar las complicaciones relacionadas con este procedimiento. Métodos: estudio observacional, retrospectivo en condiciones de práctica clínica habitual, incluyendo pacientes ingresados en un hospital de segundo nivel, portadores de sonda para NE, que hayan precisado la utilización de un sistema comercial CORGRIP NG/NI TFEEDING TUBE RETENTION SYSTEM de BN. Resultados: se analizan 51 pacientes con una edad media de 73 años (37-96); el 64,7 % eran varones. La disfagia orofaringea (DOF) fue la indicación fundamental para la colocación de la sonda de NE (54,9 %), seguida del rechazo de la ingesta (17,6 %) y la intubación orotraqueal (7,8 %), entre otras. La BN fue retirada en el 7,8 % de los casos por cambio de acceso digestivo (gastrostomía), en el 21,6 % por paso a la vía oral y en el 9,8 % por desconocimiento de su manejo. Evidenciamos diferencias significativas entre los arrancamientos accidentales y las autorretiradas de las sondas antes y después de la colocación de la BN (2,59 ± 1,512 vs. 0,24 ± 0,596; p < 0,05). No se registraron complicaciones relacionadas salvo un caso de úlcera cutánea. Conclusiones: la BN es un sistema de retención seguro y eficaz en la prevención de desplazamientos y retiradas de la sonda en los pacientes con amplia variedad de patologías. Formar a los profesionales sanitarios es imprescindible para su adecuada utilización. (AU)

Introduction: the nasal bridle (NB) is one of the strategies to avoid the displacement of tubes for enteral nutrition (EN) used during a nutritional intervention. Objectives: to review the efficacy and safety of NB placement in a patient population requiring EN by tube feeding. To analyze their clinical characteristics and identify complications related to this procedure. Methods: a retrospective observational study in usual clinical practice including patients admitted to a second-level hospital with EN catheters who required the use of a commercial NB—CORGRIP NG/NI TFEEDING TUBE RETENTION SYSTEM. Results: 51 patients with a mean age of 73 years (37-96) were analyzed; 64.7 % were men. Oropharyngeal dysphagia (OPD) was the fundamental indication for placement of an EN tube (54.9 %) followed by refusal to ingest (17.6 %), and orotracheal intubation (7.8 %), among others. NB was withdrawn in 7.8 % of cases due to change in digestive access (gastrostomy), in 21.6 % because of transition to the oral route, and in 9.8 % due to ignorance on how to use it. We found significant differences between accidental removal and self-withdrawal of probes before and after BN placement (2.59 ± 1.512 vs 0.24 ± 0.596; p < 0.05). No related complications were recorded except for only one case of skin ulcer. Conclusions: NB is a safe and effective retention system for the prevention of probe displacement and withdrawal in patients with a wide variety of pathologies. Training health professionals is essential for proper use. (AU)

Efficacy of commercial nasal bridle use in reducing feeding tube dislodgements in pediatric patients following double stage laryngotracheoplasty.

INTRODUCTION: Maintaining placement of the nasogastric feeding tube (NGT) is imperative in the double stage laryngotracheoplasty (dsLTP) patient because of concerns for adequate nutrition and hydration in the postoperative period. Additionally, multiple reinsertions due to displacement potentiate surgical morbidities. The purpose of this study was to compare NGT dislodgment rates in children with and without a commercial nasal bridle following a dsLTP surgical procedure and to determine if the use of a commercial nasal bridle decreases accidental tube dislodgements. METHODS: Medical records of pediatric patients with NGT insertion for dsLTP between Jan 1, 2012 and June 15, 2018 were reviewed for nasal bridle use, demographics, feeding tube and bridle complications, x-rays to check NGT placement, length of stay (LOS), length of bridle use and accidental feeding tube dislodgements. RESULTS: A total of 67 patients (34 unbridled and 33 bridled) received an NGT after dsLTP. No differences in demographics were noted, except the bridled group was older (median age 6.5 [IQR: 3.7, 14.3] than the unbridled group (median age 3.2 [IQR: 2.2, 6.8], p = 0.05). There were 24 episodes of NGT dislodgement in 16 patients in the unbridled group and zero displacements in the bridled patients resulting in an incidence of 9.4 [95%CI: 6.0, 14.0] and 0.0 [95%CI: 0.0, 1.9] pullouts per 100 days for unbridled versus bridled patients, respectively. Those with displacement had significantly more x-rays to check placement (p = 0.0004) and LOS was longer (p = 0.06) with a mean (SD) of 10.9 (7.0) vs. no displacement 7.0 (3.6) days. Of those bridled, 67% were discharged with a bridle and 86% returned with the NGT and bridle in place (mean bridle placement of *** ± days) at the time of stent removal. No feeding tube or bridle complications were reported for either group. CONCLUSION: The commercial nasal bridle significantly reduced NGT displacements without complication in the examined pediatric sample s/p dsLTP. Bridle use was associated with decreased radiology exposure and LOS and was successfully used in the outpatient setting.

Observation of inadvertent tube loss in ICU: effect of nasal bridles.

BACKGROUND: safe placement and securement of feeding tubes are essential to establishing early enteral nutrition. Nasogastric or nasojejunal feeding tubes are often inadvertently removed, and using a nasal bridle can reduce the number of tube replacements required. AIM: to review current nasal bridle practices on one intensive care unit. Over a 3-month period, nasal bridle use was recorded to measure unintentional tube loss and tube duration (the time a tube remained in situ). METHOD: an observational service evaluation. FINDINGS: 109 patients were recruited; 205 tubes were passed and 77 bridles were inserted, with 42% (n=46) of the bridles placed on day 1. Tubes secured with tape were more likely to be dislodged than tubes secured with a bridle, P=0.0001. Duration of tubes remaining in situ was significantly longer in patients who had a bridle fitted on day 1, P=0.0001 compared with tubes secured with tape. CONCLUSION: securing a tube with a nasal bridle from day 1 is independently associated with reduced tube loss, increased duration of tube use, and likelihood that the tube would reach redundancy when it was no longer required.

Feeding tube securement in critical illness: implications for safety.

Over 50 % of tape-secured feeding tubes are inadvertently lost. The impact of nasal bridle securement on nasogastric (NG) and nasointestinal (NI) tube loss, outcome and duration of use was determined from 1 October 2014 (NG) and 1 January 2010 respectively to 31 December 2017. From this and published data, the potential impact of nasal bridles on major complications was determined. Use of nasal bridles was independently associated with: an 80% reduction in inadvertent NI tube loss (odds ratio (OR): 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.2: 0.12-0.33, p<0.0001); increased duration of tube use (2.2 days, 95% CI: 0.7-3.7, p= 0.004); and an almost threefold likelihood of tubes being used until no longer needed (OR: 2.8, 95%CI: 1.9-4.3, p<0.0001). In a single-room intensive care unit, inadvertent tube loss dropped from 53% to 9% and tube redundancy (tube no longer required) rose from 20% to 64%. UK-wide bridle securement, by reducing premature tube loss and the need for replacement by 40%, could be associated with 1422 fewer pneumonias or pneumothoraces and 768 fewer deaths.

Reduced incidence of feeding tube dislodgement and missed feeds in burn patients with nasal bridle securement.

INTRODUCTION: Feeding tubes in burn patients are at high risk for becoming dislodged as traditional tape securement does not adhere well to sloughed skin, resulting in nutrition delivery disruption and placing patients at increased risk for iatrogenic injury upon reinsertion. METHODS: Seventy-four patients admitted to our regional burn center requiring nasoenteric nutritional support were prospectively followed. Fourty-one patients received a nasal bridle while thirty-three received traditional tape and elastic dressings. Primary outcomes centered on measuring clinical efficacy of the nasal bridle system. RESULTS: Conventional tape-secured feeding tubes were dislodged more frequently (0.9±0.2 times per 10 feeding days vs. 0.2±0.1 times per 10 feeding days; p=0.005). Nasal bridle secured tubes showed significantly longer functional life on Kaplan Meier analysis (hazard ratio 0.35; p=0.01). Fewer abdominal x-ray studies were performed to confirm tube placement in nasal bridle patients (1.48±0.13 for nasal bridle vs. 2.21±0.21 for conventional tape-secured; p=0.003). Overall, patients with bridle securement had fewer hours of missed enteric feeds (2.51±0.95hours vs. 6.72±2.07hours; p=0.05). Importantly, utilization of a nasal bridle decreased overall estimated costs for enteric feeding management ($1,379.72±120.70 vs. $1,107.66±63.95; p=0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Utilization of a nasal bridle system provides a reliable method for securement of nasoenteric feeding tubes with clinical benefits in the burn patient population.

Avulsed Nasoenteric Bridle System Magnet as an Intranasal Foreign Body.

Nasoenteric tubes provide short-term nutrition support to patients unable to take an adequate oral diet. Bridling systems may be used to secure tubes to guard against displacement. We present the first case of an avulsed magnet from a bridling system to raise awareness of this potential complication. The primary methods of securing a nasogastric tube are reviewed, and comparative assessment of the 3 main systems is presented. Diagnosis and management of nasal foreign bodies relevant to this case are reviewed and prevention/safety considerations discussed.