<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Enteral nutrition is crucial for ensuring that critically ill patients have a proper intake of food, water, and medicine. Methods to ensure this requirement should be initiated as early as possible. The use of PPF has several advantages compared to the use of a nasogastric feeding tube. In the present paper, the cases of three critically ill patients with a nonfunctional gastrointestinal system on admission to ICU, are detailed. Enteral feeding through a nasogastric tube by prokinetic agent therapy had been unsuccessful. The bedside placement of a post-pyloric feeding tube by the DRX-Revolution X-ray system is described.</p></abstract>

Enteral nutrition is crucial for ensuring that critically ill patients have a proper intake of food, water, and medicine. Methods to ensure this requirement should be initiated as early as possible. The use of PPF has several advantages compared to the use of a nasogastric feeding tube. In the present paper, the cases of three critically ill patients with a nonfunctional gastrointestinal system on admission to ICU, are detailed. Enteral feeding through a nasogastric tube by prokinetic agent therapy had been unsuccessful. The bedside placement of a post-pyloric feeding tube by the DRX-Revolution X-ray system is described.

The Placement of Post-pyloric Feeding Tubes Using DRX-Revolution Mobile X-Ray System in an ICU. A Case Series

Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Soroka Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Department of Radiology, Soroka Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

The Journal of Critical Care Medicine

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Enteral nutrition is crucial for ensuring that critically ill patients have a proper intake of food, water, and medicine. Methods to ensure this requirement...

The Placement of Post-pyloric Feeding Tubes Using DRX-Revolution Mobile X-Ray System in an ICU. A Case Series

Published Online: Aug 10, 2016

Page range: 131 - 134

Received: Apr 05, 2016

Accepted: May 20, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jccm-2016-0022

Keywords
post-pyloric feeding tube (PPF), DRX-Revolution X-ray system, enteral nutrition

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

The Placement of Post-pyloric Feeding Tubes Using DRX-Revolution Mobile X-Ray System in an ICU. A Case Series

Published Online: Aug 10, 2016

Page range: 131 - 134

Received: Apr 05, 2016

Accepted: May 20, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jccm-2016-0022

Keywordspost-pyloric feeding tube (PPF), DRX-Revolution X-ray system, enteral nutrition

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
post-pyloric feeding tube (PPF), DRX-Revolution X-ray system, enteral nutrition