title: [Feeding tube placement: auscultatory method and x-ray agreement].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to evaluate the correlation between the auscultation test and X-ray when detecting the position of an enteral feeding tube.
  
  
  METHODS
  cross-sectional study in an intensive care unit in southern Brazil, in 2011. Clinical nurse and nurse researcher performed auscultation test recording the impressions regarding the placement of an enteral feeding tube in 80 patients. A doctor evaluated the X-ray. Kappa coefficient and PABAK reviewed the agreements.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The X-ray showed that 70% of the enteral tubes were in the stomach, 27.4% in the duodenum, 1.3% in the esophagus, and 1.3% in the right lung. There was a weak correlation between clinical nurses and nurse researchers (PABAK=0.054; P=0.103), clinical nurses and X-rays (PABAK=0.188; P=0.111) and nurse researchers and X-rays (PABAK=0.128; P=0.107) . The auscultation test did not detect two risk conditions, enteral feeding tube in the esophagus and the bronchus.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the auscultation test showed little agreement with the X-ray on the enteral feeding tube location.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Assistência e Orientação Profissional, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
authors.forename: Mariur Gomes
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Beghetto
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
authors.forename: Franciele
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Anziliero
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
authors.forename: Dória Migotto
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Leães
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Pediatria, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
authors.forename: Elza Daniel
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: de Mello
mesh_terms: D001314:Auscultation; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D005260:Female; D041981:Gastrointestinal Tract / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007441:Intubation, Gastrointestinal / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography