title: Nasogastric tube placement errors and complications in pediatric intensive care unit: a case report.
abstract: Nasal ala pressure sores are among complications of nasogastric tube in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). The severity of the injury is usually minor and easily ignored. However, the complication could be easily avoided. This is a case of nasal ala sore after the placement of nasal enteral tube in a pediatric intensive care unit in our center. A 5-month-old female with pulmonary hypertension secondary to bronchiectasis with nasal ala pressure sore were reported. She was hospitalized in pediatric intensive care unit at Tabriz Children Hospital in 2010.After 53 days of PICU hospitalization she had nasal ala sore.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We know that nasal ala pressure sores could easily be avoided when preventive procedures were performed during nasogastric tube insertion.
authors.affiliation: Tabriz Children Hospital, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Mahin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seyedhejazi
authors.forename: Masoud
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hamidi
authors.forename: Daryoush
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sheikhzadeh
authors.forename: Behzad
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Aliakbari Sharabiani
keywords: Children; Nasal Ala Pressure Sore; Nasogastric Tubes