Published online Feb 16, 2022. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v10.i5.1598
Peer-review started: July 15, 2021
First decision: October 18, 2021
Revised: January 7, 2022
Accepted: January 11, 2022
Article in press: January 11, 2022
Published online: February 16, 2022
The jejunal nutrition tube has increasingly been used in clinical practice, and the results in frequent complications.
We present the case of a 74-year-old male patient who had been admitted to the intensive care unit for aspiration pneumonia and respiratory failure. When confirming the position of the jejunal tube by X-ray, we found that the feeding tube had been placed into the chest. The complications was a disaster, though the misplacement of jejunal feeding tube are uncommon.
We introduced a way of ultrasound-guided jejunum feeding tube placement to avert the disaster, which was convenient and economical.
Core Tip: We report a case of a patient who has a serious complication during the catheterization of the jejunal tube and introduce a way of using of bedside ultrasound to guide the placement of the jejunal tube to avert the disaster, which was convenient and economical.