1.
Medsurg Nurs
; 18(4): 225-7, 233, 2009.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-20552848
ABSTRACT
Medical-surgical patients may receive enteral nutrition via feeding tubes. This research study determined Pseudomonas aeruginosa can develop a bacterial biofilm on the Lopez enteral feeding valve in 3 days when cultured in enteral nutrition. Biofilms can cause nosocomial infections.
Subject(s)
Biofilms/growth & development , Enteral Nutrition/instrumentation , Equipment Contamination/prevention & control , Infection Control/methods , Intubation, Gastrointestinal/instrumentation , Cross Infection/etiology , Cross Infection/prevention & control , Disinfection/methods , Equipment Contamination/statistics & numerical data , Equipment Design , Humans , Internal Medicine , Nurse's Role , Nursing Research , Perioperative Nursing , Pseudomonas aeruginosa/growth & development , Specialties, Nursing , Time Factors
2.
Crit Care Nurse
; 28(1): 37-41, 2008 Feb.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-18238936