The identification and treatment of toxic megacolon secondary to pseudomembranous colitis

Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 249-254

  Earhart, Megan M ^a,b  

^a JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal disease; Inflammatory bowel disease; Pseudomembranous colitis; Toxic megacolon

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; CASE REPORT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COLON RESECTION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPENIA; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TOXIC MEGACOLON;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COLECTOMY; CRITICAL CARE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; INCIDENCE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MALE; MEGACOLON, TOXIC; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPENIA; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; RARE DISEASES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 58749098047     PISSN: 07304625     EISSN: 15388646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.DCC.0000338869.70035.2b     Document Type: Article

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