As you arrive into a patient's room for transport to radiology,you notice that the patient has an NG tube in place with a syringe upright and pinned to the gown.You should know that this patient

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To prevent leakage from a double-lumen type NG tube,the barrel of a piston-like syringe may be inserted into the suction-drainage lumen,and it is then pinned to the patient's gown with the barrel upward.A double-lumen tube must never be clamped closed because to do so might cause the lumina to adhere to each other and destroy the double-lumen effect.

As You Arrive into a Patient's Room for Transport to Radiology,you