Flávia de Souza Barbosa Dias, Suellen Cristina Dias Emidio, Maria Helena Baena de Moraes Lopes, Antonieta Keiko Kakuda Shimo, Ana Raquel Medeiros Beck, Elenice Valentim Carmona
OBJECTIVE: to investigate evidence in the literature on procedures for measuring gastric tube insertion in newborns and verifying its placement, using alternative procedures to radiological examination. METHOD: an integrative review of the literature carried out in the Cochrane, LILACS, CINAHL, EMBASE, MEDLINE and Scopus databases using the descriptors "Intubation, gastrointestinal" and "newborns" in original articles. RESULTS: seventeen publications were included and categorized as "measuring method" or "technique for verifying placement"...
July 10, 2017: Revista Latino-americana de Enfermagem