Confirming placement of nasogastric feeding tubes
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Confirming placement of nasogastric feeding tubes.
A 78-year-old alert woman in hospital was being fed through a nasogastric tube because of deconditioning. She was taking acetylsalicylic acid for ischemic cardiomyopathy, and a vitamin K antagonist for atrial fibrillation and a recent axillobifemoral bypass thrombosis. She had a permanent right-side nephrostomy after receiving an injury to the ureter during the bypass surgery. She did not have ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.150609