Use of capnometry to verify feeding tube placement

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2255-2259

  Araujo Preza, Carlos E ^a   Melhado, Mauricio E ^a   Gutierrez, Francisco J ^a   Maniatis, Theodore ^a   Castellano, Michael A ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Capnography; Capnometry; Enteral feeding complications; Enteral nutrition; Enteral tube insertion; Placement verification

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CAPNOGRAPHY; CARBON DIOXIDE MEASUREMENT; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036799769     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200210000-00013     Document Type: Article

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