Intravenous erythromycin facilitates bedside placement of postpyloric feeding tubes in critically ill adults: A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-44

  Griffith, Daniel P ^a   McNally, A Therese ^a   Battey, Cindy H ^a   Forte, Susan S ^a   Cacciatore, Angela M ^a   Szeszycki, Elaina E ^a   Bergman, Glen F ^a   Furr, Celeste E ^a   Murphy, Fredrick B ^a   Galloway, John R ^a   Ziegler, Thomas R ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical illness; Enteral feeding; Erythromycin; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; PLACEBO; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BOLUS INJECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INFUSION; DUODENUM; ENTERIC FEEDING; EVALUATION; EXPERIENCE; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SECRETION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JEJUNUM; MALE; NURSE; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TECHNIQUE; TIME;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENTERAL NUTRITION; ERYTHROMYCIN; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0037246919     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200301000-00006     Document Type: Article

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