You are transporting a resident of a nursing home to the hospital for a complaint of abdominal pain for 3 days. During your assessment, you note a tube protruding from the patient's nose, which is connected to a bag of milky-white fluid. This tube is known as a:

A) nasogastric tube. B) gastric tube. C) J-tube. D) tracheal tube.


A

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