Risk of aspiration in patients on enteral nutrition: Frequency, relevance, relation to pneumonia, risk factors, and strategies for risk reduction

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 338-344

  Mizock, Barry A ^a  

^a Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEMCINAL; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE; CISAPRIDE; DOPAMINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FENTANYL; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; OPIATE; PEPSIN A; PLACEBO; PROKINETIC AGENT; PROPOFOL; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ASPIRATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPHAGIA; DYSTONIA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENTERIC FEEDING; FLUOROMETRY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NUTRITIONAL INTOLERANCE; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RESIDUAL VOLUME; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SIDE EFFECT; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH PARESIS; SUPINE POSITION; TARDIVE DYSKINESIA; THORAX INJURY; THORAX SURGERY; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; VOMITING;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; ENTERAL NUTRITION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34848830183     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-007-0039-7     Document Type: Review

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