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Is looped nasogastric tube feeding more effective than conventional nasogastric tube feeding for dysphagia in acute stroke?

BACKGROUND: Dysphagia occurs in up to 50% of patients admitted to hospital with acute strokes with up to 27% remaining by seven days. Up to 8% continue to have swallowing problems six months after their stroke with 1.7% still requiring enteral feeding. Nasogastric tubes (NGT) are the most commonly u...

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Autores principales: Beavan, Jessica R, Conroy, Simon, Leonardi-Bee, Jo, Bowling, Tim, Gaynor, Catherine, Gladman, John, Good, Dawn, Gorman, Peter, Harwood, Rowan, Riley, Jan, Sach, Tracey, Sunman, Wayne
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1976319/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17683555
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-8-19