What Is Known About Methods of Correctly Placing Gastric Tubes in Adults and Children

Gastroenterology Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 253-259

  Ellett, Marsha L Cirgin ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; PEPSIN A; TRYPSIN;

ADULT; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; AUSCULTATION; CHEMISTRY; CHILD; COLORIMETRY; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STANDARD; STATISTICS; STOMACH JUICE; STOMACH PH; SUCTION; TEST STRIP;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; AUSCULTATION; BILIRUBIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHILD; COLORIMETRY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; GASTRIC ACIDITY DETERMINATION; GASTRIC JUICE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MEDICAL ERRORS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PEPSIN A; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REAGENT STRIPS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUCTION; TRYPSIN;

EID: 14744277229     PISSN: 1042895X     EISSN: 15389766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001610-200411000-00002     Document Type: Article

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