Prospective, randomized evaluation of early removal of nasogastric tubes in postceliotomy trauma patients

American Surgeon

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 52-54

  Knoepp, Louis F ^a,c   Thomae, Keith R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Metro East Surgical Specialty SC   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLATULENCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; PATIENT CARE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; SURGICAL PATIENT; TIME;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032953809     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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