Motility agents for the placement of weighted and unweighted feeding tubes in critically ill patients

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 301-304

  Paz, H L ^a,b   Weinar, M ^a   Sherman, M S ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Enteral feeding tubes; Erythromycin; Gastrointestinal motility; Metoclopramide; Nutritional support

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; INTESTINE CONTRACTION STIMULATING AGENT; METOCLOPRAMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DUODENUM; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH; STOMACH INTUBATION; STOMACH MOTILITY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUBE; WEIGHT;

EID: 0029972401     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01700450     Document Type: Article

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