A new strategy for enteral nutrition using a deflection flexible visual gastric tube: A randomized crossover manikin trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Enteral nutrition via gastric tube insertion is a routine clinical practice for critically ill patients, although complications due to blind manipulation are occasionally reported.

Methods

An 8.4Fr deflection flexible ureteroscope was delivered into a 15Fr conventional gastric tube to create a gastric visual guidance system. Twenty inexperienced physicians were randomly assigned to perform 5 repeated orogastric tube placements in a manikin using both the conventional method and the deflection visual gastric tube, for a total of 10 procedures per physician. Placement time, procedure-related complications, and participants' experience with both methods were recorded.

Results

Under real-time guidance, the visual gastric tube successfully reached the stomach. T

SUBMITTER: Li J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5976308 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature