Continuous nasogastric tube feeding: Monitoring by combined use of refractometry and traditional gastric residual volumes

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 105-112

  Chang, Wei Kuo ^a   McClave, S A ^b   Chao, Y C ^a  

^a TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Enteral nutrition; Nutrition; Polymeric diet; Refractometer; Tube feeding

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; ENTERIC FEEDING; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFUSION; MONITORING; NOSE FEEDING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECORDING; REFRACTOMETRY; RESIDUAL VOLUME; STOMACH CONTENT; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH SUCTION; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 1242342229     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-5614(03)00101-8     Document Type: Article

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