Transpyloric Feeding Tube Placement in Critically Ill Patients Using Electromyogram and Erythromycin Infusion

Chest

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 587-591

  Levy, Howard ^a   Hayes, James ^b   Boivin, Michel ^a,c   Tomba, Todd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Electromyography; Enteral feeding; Erythromycin; GI motility; Intubation, GI; Nutrition; Transpyloric

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; DRUG INFUSION; DUODENUM; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JEJUNUM; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PYLORUS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH MOTILITY; STOMACH PARESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 1242329143     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.125.2.587     Document Type: Article

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