Naso-enteric Tube Placement: A Review of Methods to Confirm Tip Location, Global Applicability and Requirements

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2243-2252

  Milsom, S A ^a   Sweeting, J A ^c   Sheahan, H ^b   Haemmerle, E ^c   Windsor, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; CAPNOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; MAGNETOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH; TRANSCUTANEOUS OXYGEN MONITORING;

BLOOD GAS MONITORING, TRANSCUTANEOUS; CAPNOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MAGNETOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH;

EID: 84939000208     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-015-3077-6     Document Type: Review

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