Pulmonary aspiration of gastric contents in patients receiving mechanical ventilation: The effect of body position

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 1992, Pages 540-543

  Torres, Antoni ^a,b   Serra Batlles, Joan ^a,b   Ros, Emilio ^a,b   Piera, Carles ^a,b   De La Bellacasa, Jorge Puig ^a,b   Cobos, Albert ^a   Lomeña, Francisco ^a,b   Rodríguez Roisin, Robert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BRONCHUS SECRETION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECUMBENCY; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH CONTENT; SUPINE POSITION;

FEMALE; GASTRIC JUICE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PHARYNX; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; POSTURE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK FACTORS; SUPINE POSITION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SULFUR COLLOID; TRACHEA;

EID: 0026606379     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-116-7-540     Document Type: Article

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