Nonoral feeding practices for infants in the neonatal intensive care unit

Advances in Neonatal Care

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 180-184

  Birnbaum, Rena ^a   Limperopoulos, Catherine ^a,b,c  

^a MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery ^*

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fullterm infant; Nasogastric tubes; NICU; Nonoral feeding; Orogastric tubes; Preterm infant

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349255642     PISSN: 15360903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ANC.0b013e3181aa9c65     Document Type: Article

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