What is the evidence that twenty-five millilitres of gastric fluid puts patients at risk of aspiration?

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 127-

  Van De Putte, P B C ^a   Perlas, A ^a  

^a NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCHLORIC ACID;

ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PATIENT RISK; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; STOMACH CONTENT; STOMACH JUICE; STOMACH SECRETION; TRACHEA;

GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION;

EID: 85012938781     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: 14480271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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