Implementation of an electromagnetic imaging system to facilitate nasogastric and post-pyloric feeding tube placement in patients with and without critical illness

Background: Artificial nutrition support is required to optimise nutritional status in many patients. Traditional methods of placing feeding tubes may incur clinical risk and financial costs. A technique facilitating placement of nasogastric and post-pyloric tubes via electromagnetic visual guidance...

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Main Authors: Windle, E., Beddow, D., Hall, E., Wright, Janine, Sundar, N.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33097