Bench-to-bedside review: Routine postoperative use of the nasogastric tube - Utility or futility?

Critical Care

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Tanguy, Michèle ^a   Seguin, Philippe ^a   Mallédant, Yannick ^a  

^a PONTCHAILLOU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; CARBOHYDRATE; NEOSTIGMINE; OPIATE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; OXYGEN; SILASTIC;

ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HYDRATION; HYSTERECTOMY; ILEUS; INCIDENCE; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE VOMITING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STOMACH DISTENSION; STOMACH EMPTYING; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; COLON DISEASE; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING;

COLONIC DISEASES; GASTRIC DILATATION; HUMANS; ILEUS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING;

EID: 34248229657     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc5118     Document Type: Review

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