Fluoroscopically guided nasoenteric feeding tube placement: results of a 1-year study
| Autor: | E. D. Gutierrez, D M Balfe |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Resuscitation Time Factors Population Pneumonia Aspiration Enteral administration Enteral Nutrition medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Tube (fluid conveyance) Major complication education Feeding tube Intubation Gastrointestinal Aged Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over education.field_of_study business.industry Arrhythmias Cardiac medicine.disease Tracheobronchial injury Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure Fluoroscopy Duodenum business |
| Zdroj: | Radiology. 178(3) |
| ISSN: | 0033-8419 |
| Popis: | Nasoenteric tube feeding is a widely used alternative to parenteral intravenous nutritional support or gastrostomy tube placement. Unmonitored tube passage may result in complications and delays the beginning of tube feedings. The authors studied the results of 882 fluoroscopically guided feeding tube placements in 448 patients in 1 year to determine rates of success and complications, as well as the long-term outcome of this population of patients. Seven hundred sixty-four attempts (86.6%) were successful in positioning the tube distal to the third portion of the duodenum. Four major complications (three fatal arrhythmias and one tracheobronchial injury) were encountered. Only seven patients (2%) experienced aspiration events that were due to positioning of the tube in the distal duodenum. Seventy-seven percent of patients required either one or two tubes; the average "tube life" was 7.8 days. Most repositionings were required because of patient noncompliance or inappropriate administration of solid medications. Fluoroscopically guided nasoenteric tube passage is safe, easily performed, and highly successful, and has resulted in widespread clinical acceptance in our institution. |
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