Gastric Tube Placement in Difficult Cases: An Extensive review of the Aternative Methods
Gastric tube placement for enteral feeding and gastric drainage is very commonly performed procedure in the ICU. The placement may sometimes be difficult or impossible in intubated and paralyzed patients due to impaction and/or coiling in the mouth. The recognition of the...
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| description | Gastric tube placement for enteral feeding and gastric drainage is very
commonly performed procedure in the ICU. The placement may sometimes be difficult or impossible in intubated and paralyzed patients due to impaction and/or coiling in the mouth. The recognition of the site/s
of impaction and methods to overcome them have been described
variously in literature with different degrees of success. Knowledge and practice of these alternative methods can be sometimes of great help particularly while facing difficulty |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f30b342d8ffc4c4cbcb535b2d40d93312022-12-21T21:19:48ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsThe Indian Anaesthetists' Forum0973-03112008-10-0198156Gastric Tube Placement in Difficult Cases: An Extensive review of the Aternative MethodsPrashant KumarSumit RayPrakash ShastriB K RaoGastric tube placement for enteral feeding and gastric drainage is very commonly performed procedure in the ICU. The placement may sometimes be difficult or impossible in intubated and paralyzed patients due to impaction and/or coiling in the mouth. The recognition of the site/s of impaction and methods to overcome them have been described variously in literature with different degrees of success. Knowledge and practice of these alternative methods can be sometimes of great help particularly while facing difficultyhttp://www.theiaforum.org/Article_Folder/gastric-tube-placement-alternative-methods.pdf |
| spellingShingle | Prashant Kumar Sumit Ray Prakash Shastri B K Rao Gastric Tube Placement in Difficult Cases: An Extensive review of the Aternative Methods The Indian Anaesthetists' Forum |
| title | Gastric Tube Placement in Difficult Cases: An Extensive review of the Aternative Methods |
| title_full | Gastric Tube Placement in Difficult Cases: An Extensive review of the Aternative Methods |
| title_fullStr | Gastric Tube Placement in Difficult Cases: An Extensive review of the Aternative Methods |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gastric Tube Placement in Difficult Cases: An Extensive review of the Aternative Methods |
| title_short | Gastric Tube Placement in Difficult Cases: An Extensive review of the Aternative Methods |
| title_sort | gastric tube placement in difficult cases an extensive review of the aternative methods |
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