Use of a colorimetric carbon dioxide sensor for nasoenteric feeding tube placement in critical care patients compared with clinical methods and radiography

Nutrition in Clinical Practice

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 318-321

  Munera Seeley, Vernica ^a   Ochoa, Juan B ^a   Brown, Nefertiti ^b   Bayless, Angela ^a   Correia, M Isabel T D ^c   Bryk, Jodie ^d   Zenati, Mazen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Critical care; Enteral nutrition; Gastrointestinal intubation

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AIRWAY; ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ESOPHAGUS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NOSE FEEDING; NURSE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH RADIOGRAPHY; CAPNOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; ECONOMICS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTENSIVE CARE; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; STANDARD; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CAPNOGRAPHY; CARBON DIOXIDE; COLORIMETRY; CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 53449087526     PISSN: 08845336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0884533608318105     Document Type: Article

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