Monitoring feeding tube placement

Nutrition in Clinical Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 487-495

  Metheny, Norma A ^a   Meert, Kathleen L ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; AUSCULTATION; CAPNOGRAPHY; EMPYEMA; GASTROINTESTINAL SECRETION; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; INTENSIVE CARE; MONITORING; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NOSE FEEDING; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SEPTICEMIA; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH CONTENT; STOMACH PH; STOMACH SUCTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBE FEEDING;

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EID: 4644236653     PISSN: 08845336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0115426504019005487     Document Type: Review

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