… are prone to aspiration and nosocomial pneumonia; … aspiration in patients receiving enteral
nutrition, discusses assessment of risk factors, and offers preventive strategies to reduce risk. …

… Pulmonary aspiration (PA) is one of the most feared complications of enteral nutrition, yet
the incidence and risk factors for pulmonary aspiration have not been …

… less expensive than parenteral nutrition. The most commonly identified complication of
enteral nutrition is aspiration. It is difficult to correlate and diagnose aspiration, pneumonia, and …

… ‐risk disease and injury conditions, and advanced age. Results: Many studies of aspiration
risk factors have relatively small sample sizes and used equivocal definitions of aspiration. …

… Patients with stroke suffer from nutrition impairments and often rely on enteral nutrition (EN), …
and aspiration. Objective: To evaluate the incidence of regurgitation and aspiration in …

… Should we think about small bowel feeding just for patients at high risk for aspiration? I don’t
know what those risks are, but maybe they have something to do with high gastric residuals …

… Aspiration is not always clinically obvious. This paper will review ways to decrease the risk
of aspiration … glutamine-enriched enteral nutrition on infectious morbidity in patients with …

… in critically ill adults with numerous risk factors for tracheal aspiration, feeding into the mid- …
reduced the risk of aspiration and associated pneumonia [18]. Despite the lower risk, in 20 …

… Enteral nutrition has been demonstrated to reduce ventilator days and the incidence of
pneumonia, but the safest route for providing enteral nutrition … indicate that enteral nutrition should …

… are believed to contribute to the development of VAP, it has been reported that gastric residual
volume (GRV) and pulmonary aspiration may not increase the risk for VAP. Nevertheless, …