Important Facts About Intestinal Feeding Tube Placement

Gastroenterology Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 112-124

  Ellett, Marsha L Cirgin ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISAPRIDE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT; METOCLOPRAMIDE;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; DRUG COMBINATION; ENTERIC FEEDING; EQUIPMENT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL ERROR; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH PH;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; CISAPRIDE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENTERAL NUTRITION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; ERYTHROMYCIN; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GASTRIC ACIDITY DETERMINATION; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MEDICAL ERRORS; METOCLOPRAMIDE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33745006413     PISSN: 1042895X     EISSN: 15389766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001610-200603000-00004     Document Type: Article

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