MetaGlossary.com: Gastric Lavage

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Washing the stomach out

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Method used to pump stomachs after drug overdose.

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Cleansing the stomach using a tube and fluids.

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Stomach pumping The washing out of the stomach with water, often to treat poisoning.

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The irrigation or washing out of the stomach by means of a gastric tube

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Flushing of the stomach with saline or water, usually to remove ingested poisons

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washing out of the stomach with water, often to treat poisoning; commonly called "stomach pumping"

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Gastric lavage, also commonly called Stomach pump or Gastric irrigation, is the process of cleaning out the contents of the stomach. It has been used for over 200 years as a means of eliminating poisons from the stomach. Such devices are normally used on a person who has ingested a poison or overdosed on a drug.

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