Patients admitted to Intensive Care Unit
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients requiring enteral nutrition after admission to the intensive care unit Patients who have a new blind enteral feeding tube inserted after admission to the ICU or who require replacement of an indwelling enteral feeding tube (regardless of its position) Patients with failure of initial FT placement
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Postoperative patients with an enteral feeding tube placed or a surgical enteral feeding route (gastrostomy, enterostomy) secured prior to admission Patients for whom enteral nutrition is not indicated (e.g., ileus, intestinal ischemia, gastrointestinal bleeding, refractory diarrhea, gastrointestinal infections, etc.)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Association between the stomach position aassessed by abdominal radiograph or CT taken before the placement and the success rate of second or subsequent placement. | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Yokohama City University Hospital Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine