Application of visual placement of a nasojejunal indwelling feeding tube in intensive care unit patients receiving mechanical ventilation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Compared with nasogastric nutrition, nasojejunal nutrition may prevent some complications of critically ill patients by maintaining better nutritional status, and blind placement of nasojejunal dwelling feeding tubes is widely used. However, the visual placement seems to be safer and more effective than the blind placement, and is still seldom reported.

Objective

We tried to develop visual placement of a nasojejunal feeding tube in intensive care unit patients.

Methods

A total of 122 patients receiving mechanical ventilation were admitted to the Department of Critical Care Medicine of the Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University and received the placement of nasojejunal feeding tubes. These patients were randomly and evenly assigned into two

SUBMITTER: Chen Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9722953 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature