Introduction This work, fruit of a search of knowledge, comes for these leaned over to say of the intubao or nasogstrica sounding, since in the branch of the Health some types of sounding leads exist of which the orogstricas, nosogstricas, nasoentricas and transabdominais are distinguished. Objectivos: To give to know the recent followers of Nightingale, the concept of sounding lead, general objectivos of the sounding leads and in particular the nasogstricas, the necessary material in the preparation, insertion and in the gastric laudering of the nasogstricas sounding leads. Sounding Sounding is the term that if relates the rank of a sounding lead in a structure of organism (BARBAROUS K. TIMBEY: 985). Objectivos general of the sounding – To procreate nutrition (gavagem) – To manage medication verbal that cannot be engolida.