Use of small-bore feeding tubes: Successes and failures

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 291-296

  De Aguilar Nascimento, José Eduardo ^a,d   Kudsk, Kenneth A ^b,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^b WILLIAM S MIDDLETON MEMORIAL VETERANS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Enteral nutrition; Feeding tube placement; Pneumothorax

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ASPIRATION; AUSCULTATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLORIMETRY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; END TIDAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENTERIC FEEDING; ESOPHAGUS; FEEDING APPARATUS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NASOJEJUNAL TUBE; PH; PHARYNX; PNEUMOTHORAX; POINT OF CARE TESTING; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TUBE FEEDING;

CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; PNEUMOTHORAX; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL;

EID: 34247121780     PISSN: 13631950     EISSN: 15353885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCO.0b013e3280d64a1d     Document Type: Review

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