Testing Feeding Tube Placement during Continuous Tube Feedings

Applied Nursing Research

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 254-258

  Metheny, Norma A ^a   Stewart, Barbara J ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEEDING; HUMAN; INTUBATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NURSING; PH MEASUREMENT; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH; ADULT; AGED; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INHALATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD;

BILIRUBIN; PEPSIN A; TRYPSIN;

ADULT; AGED; BILIRUBIN; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INHALATION; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPSIN A; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TRYPSIN;

EID: 0036833614     PISSN: 08971897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/apnr.2002.35946     Document Type: Article

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