1. We gave him fluids for the first two weeks and then fed him through a tube which passed through his nose into his stomach.
    头两个礼拜我们给他输液，后来又通过一根导管将食物从他的鼻子输送到他的胃里。

2. They used to suffer for about 37 hours after surgery on average with a plastic tube as thick as a thumb running through their mouth or nose and down 11 inches of their throat.
    过去，手术后病人平均要疼大约37个小时，一根拇指粗细的塑料导管经口腔或鼻腔插入喉咙，深至11英寸。

3. The tube assists breathing, but patients say it feels like a fire running through their throat and hurts more than having their chest cut open.
    导管帮助病人呼吸，但病人说感觉它就像一把火烧过喉咙，比开胸还难受。

4. Two years ago, a 15-member team at the 115-year-old teaching hospital, under pressure to cut costs from a health maintenance organization (HMO), was given permission by the hospital's top manager to find a way to get the tube removed sooner.
    两年前，出于一家保健组织（HMO）要求减少成本的压力，这家有115年历史的教学医院组建了一支15人小组，他们得到医院总经理的许可来研制一种方法，以便尽早去掉导管。

5. They discovered some hospitals were removing the tube much faster.
    他们发现，有些医院导管去除得很早。

6. They suffered no additional pain, awoke more aware, and the tube was removed quickly — sometimes six hours after surgery.
    他们没有额外的痛苦，醒时更为清醒，而导管也去除得快——有时术后6小时就拿走了。

7. After three weeks he was still completely unconscious, and the tube caused him to have a constant, painful sore throat ...
    三周后，他依旧昏迷不醒，而导管使他的喉咙经常疼痛。

8. It too would destroy bacteria in a test tube.
    这种霉菌在试管里也同样能杀灭细菌。

9. I talked to his four grown children and told them I thought we should insert a tube directly into his stomach through a small hole so he could be fed without so much pain.
    我与他的四个成年孩子商量，告诉他们我认为该把一根导管通过一个小洞直接插进他的胃里，这样喂食他就不会那么痛苦。

10. I also told them, "I can remove the tube and just let him swallow whatever he can.
    我还告诉他们说："我可以把导管拿掉，就让他吃些他能吃得下的东西。

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