Background: The jejunal nutrition tube has increasingly been used in clinical practice, and the results in frequent complications.
Case summary: 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.
Conclusion: We introduced a way of ultrasound-guided jejunum feeding tube placement to avert the disaster, which was convenient and economical.
Keywords: Case report; Complication; Feeding tube placement; Nasoenteral feeding tube; Nutritional support; Ultrasound-guided.
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