Concepedia

Small Bowel Necrosis Associated with Early Postoperative Jejunal Tube Feeding in a Trauma Patient

Imtiaz A. Munshi, Jay S. Steingrub, Lorraine M. Wolpert

The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care · 2000 · 63 citations · 7 references

Abstract

Several investigators have reported the association of small bowel ischemia and necrosis with needle catheter jejunostomy. We report a case of small bowel necrosis with continuous jejunal tube feeding and review the pathogenesis implicated in feeding-induced bowel necrosis.

References

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A study of problems associated with the delivery of enteral feed in critically ill patients in five ICUs in the UK

Sheila Adam, S Batson · Intensive Care Medicine · 1997 · 373 citations · Full text

Critical Care Management, Critical Care Medicine, Ill Patients +8

Acquisition of <i>Clostridium difficile</i> and <i>Clostridium difficile</i>-Associated Diarrhea in Hospitalized Patients Receiving Tube Feeding

Donna Z. Bliss · Annals of Internal Medicine · 1998 · 297 citations

Impaired gastric emptying in mechanically ventilated, critically ill patients

Daren K. Heyland, Gervais Tougas, Derek King et al. · Intensive Care Medicine · 1996 · 239 citations

Patient Safety, Gastroenterology, Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery +2

Small Bowel Ischemia: A Consequence of Feeding Jejunostomy?

MICHAEL C. GADDY, MARTIN H. MAX, CHARLES W. SCHWAB et al. · Southern Medical Journal · 1986 · 61 citations

Nutrition, Continuous Jejunal Feeding, Gastroenterology +8

Intraluminal release of serotonin, substance P, and gastrin in the canine small intestine

Andrea Ferrara, Michael J. Zinner, Bernard M. Jaffe · Digestive Diseases and Sciences · 1987 · 39 citations

Intraluminal Release, Medicine, Physiology +7