A simple radio-isotopic method for the detection of bronchial inhalation during intensive care

✍ Scribed by J. Venot; E. Veyriras; J. C. Vandroux; E. Bournaud; H. Gastinne; C. Beck

• Book ID: 104683536
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 150 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0340-6997
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00252866

✦ Synopsis

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.