"You Wanna Do What?!" Modern Indications for Nasogastric Intubation

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-64

  Witting, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

gastrointestinal hemorrhage; hematemesis; intestinal obstruction; intubation, gastrointestinal; melena

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; MELENA; PAIN; PANCREATITIS; PARALYTIC ILEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STOMACH INTUBATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATEMESIS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; PAIN;

EID: 34447249231     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2007.02.017     Document Type: Article

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