Blind bedside placement of feeding tubes: Treatment or threat?

Practical Gastroenterology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 32-42

  Krenitsky, Joe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; BRONCHUS INJURY; CAPNOGRAPHY; COLORIMETRY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEATH; DEVICE SAFETY; EMPYEMA; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEEDING APPARATUS; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; INCIDENCE; LUNG INJURY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 79958265969     PISSN: 02774208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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