title: A simple radio-isotopic method for the detection of bronchial inhalation during intensive care.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D007441:Intubation, Gastrointestinal; D011015:Pneumonia, Aspiration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012211:Rhenium; D013667:Technetium; D017556:Technetium Compounds; D013671:Technetium Tc 99m Sulfur Colloid
chemical_list: D017556:Technetium Compounds; C030576:technetium Tc 99m rhenium colloid; D013671:Technetium Tc 99m Sulfur Colloid; D012211:Rhenium; D013667:Technetium