Oral and nasal enteral tube placement errors and complications in a pediatric intensive care unit

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 161-164

  Creel, Amy M ^a   Winkler, Margaret K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Enteral tube; Morbidity; Pediatric; Pneumothorax

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTHMATIC STATE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEAR DROWNING; NOSE FEEDING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUBE FEEDING;

EID: 34147159593     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PCC.0000257035.54831.26     Document Type: Article

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