A simple radio-isotopic method for the detection of bronchial inhalation during intensive care.
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.
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
D017556:Technetium Compounds; C030576:technetium Tc 99m rhenium colloid; D013671:Technetium Tc 99m Sulfur Colloid; D012211:Rhenium; D013667:Technetium