| Literature DB >> 6489365 |
J Venot, E Veyriras, J C Vandroux, E Bournaud, H Gastinne, C Beck.
Abstract
The high incidence of pneumopathy in intensive care units might be due to the pulmonary aspiration of gastric juice following gastro-oesophageal reflux. The paper describes a radio-isotopic method using material easy to install at the patient's bedside. This technique demonstrated aspiration of gastric juice in the lungs of 8 of 25 intensive care patients investigated. Such a method might be useful later to demonstrate that silent bronchial aspirations of gastric juice are responsible for pulmonary complications.Entities:
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Year: 1984 PMID: 6489365 DOI: 10.1007/bf00252866
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur J Nucl Med ISSN: 0340-6997