Air insufflation technique of enteral tube insertion: A randomized, controlled trial

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1036-1039

  Salasidis, Robert ^a   Fleiszer, Timothy ^a   Johnston, Richard ^b  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aspiration; Critically III; Early nutrition; Enteral feeding; Gut permeability; Intubation, gastrointestinal; Nutrition, enteral; Nutrition, parenteral; Pneumonia; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AERATION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTERIC FEEDING; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTESTINE MOTILITY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEPSIS;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; ENTERAL NUTRITION; HUMANS; INSUFFLATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0031799277     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199806000-00023     Document Type: Article

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