Open AccessIs tube feeding associated with altered arterial oxygen saturation in stroke patients?
Author(s) -
Dipankar Dutta
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
age and ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1468-2834
pISSN - 0002-0729
DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afh183
Subject(s) - medicine , stroke (engine) , cardiology , oxygen saturation , oxygen , anesthesia , mechanical engineering , chemistry , organic chemistry , engineering
Reduced arterial oxygen saturation (SaO(2)) during swallowing, oral feeding and feeding tube placement has been demonstrated in stroke patients. It is not known if tube feeding causes similar episodes of arterial desaturation and whether there is a case for routine pulse oximetry during tube feeding.
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