Bedside postpyloric feeding tube placement: A pilot series to validate this novel technique

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 523-527

  Gatt, Marcel ^a   MacFie, John ^a  

^a SCARBOROUGH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Enteral nutrition; Feeding methods; Human; Nasojejunal; Nutrition; Nutritional support; Postpyloric

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; ASPIRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NASOJEJUNAL TUBE FEEDING; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSTPYLORIC FEEDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; STOMACH PH; TUBE FEEDING;

AGED; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; GASTRIC JUICE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PILOT PROJECTS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PYLORUS;

EID: 67650373893     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181959836     Document Type: Article

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