The nasogastric feeding tube as a risk factor for aspiration and aspiration pneumonia

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 327-333

  Gomes, Guilherme F ^a   Pisani, Julio C ^a   Macedo, Evaldo D ^a   Campos, Antonio C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aspiration; Aspiration pneumonia; Enteral nutrition; Feeding methods; Gastric colonization; Gastrointestinal intubation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASPIRATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; FEEDING APPARATUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALNUTRITION; MOUTH DISEASE; NOSE FEEDING; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SALIVATION; STOMACH PH; STOMACH SECRETION; TOOTH DISEASE; UPPER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; ENTERIC FEEDING; HUMAN; INHALATION; PHARYNX; SECRETION; STOMACH JUICE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

ENTERAL NUTRITION; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; HUMANS; INHALATION; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; PHARYNX; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85047691273     PISSN: 13631950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mco.0000068970.34812.8b     Document Type: Review

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