New strategy to ease the discomfort of insertion of nasogastric tubes

International Journal of Clinical Practice

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1373-1374

  Wood, Carine ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; METOCLOPRAMIDE; ANTIEMETIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ASPIRATION; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; LUBRICATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NAUSEA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHARYNX DISCOMFORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH INTUBATION; STOMACH SUCTION; VOMITING; ADULT; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; PAIN;

ADULT; ANTIEMETICS; GAGGING; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; METOCLOPRAMIDE; PAIN;

EID: 33646837324     PISSN: 13685031     EISSN: 17421241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1368-5031.2005.00751b.x     Document Type: Editorial

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