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Gastric lavage is carried out both for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes. This probe procedure is based on the principle of communicating vessels and serves to pump out the contents from the stomach. The technique of gastric lavage requires concentration, knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and skills in manipulating the phantom from the nurse.

Indications for gastric lavage

• Poisoning by ingested poisons, alcohol, drugs, other toxic agents.
• Food poisoning.
• Gastric pathologies, including gastritis, with abundant mucus formation.
• Diagnosis of oncological diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
• Identification of the pathogen in inflammatory processes in the stomach, as well as in the lungs and bronchi, when the patient cannot collect sputum.