A 4-Year-Old Child Is Admitted to the Critical Care Unit

A 4-year-old child is admitted to the critical care unit with fever,chills,headache,vomiting,lethargy,photophobia,and nuchal rigidity.The patient has been unable to eat,and tube feedings are to be initiated.What is the preferred method for determining the insertion length of the nasogastric tube?

A) Measure from the naris to ear to xiphoid process.
B) Measure from the ear to the umbilicus.
C) Measure from the naris to the xiphoid to ear.
D) Measure from the naris to ear to a point between the xiphoid process and the umbilicus.