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GASTRIC LAVAGE [3 records]

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Record 1 2012-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Injections, Tubing and Transfusions (Medicine)
CONT

Organophosphate intoxication... Therapy consists of gastric lavage with more than 100 liters of water, followed by the use of activated charcoal and oral cathartics, respiratory support, and anticonvulsants as needed.

Key term(s)
  • lavage

French

Domaine(s)
  • Injections, tubages et transfusions (Médecine)
DEF

Procédé consistant à introduire dans l'estomac soit par voie buccale, soit par voie nasale, un liquide, puis à l'évacuer immédiatement pour entraîner le contenu gastrique.

Key term(s)
  • lavage d'estomac
  • lavage

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inyecciones, intubación y transfusiones (Medicina)
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Record 2 2008-07-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgical Instruments
DEF

A long flexible rubber tube that can be passed through the esophagus and stomach into the duodenum.

CONT

Duodenal tube for active aspiration, feeding, injection, lavage or other gastric surgical procedures.

OBS

The duodenal tube has been in use as an aid to diagnosis since I909, when Einhorn first demonstrated its clinical applicability. It is now accepted as the best means of obtaining duodenal contents for examination.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments chirurgicaux
CONT

Une particularité technique consiste en la mise en place d'une sonde duodénale sans ballonnet en amont de l'angle de Treitz.

Spanish

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Record 3 1988-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Surgical Treatment
  • The Stomach
CONT

Evacuate the stomach by emesis or gastric lavage, followed by administration of activated charcoal and catharsis. Maintain blood pressure by fluid replacement and, if necessary, administration of dopamine or levarterenol.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitements non chirurgicaux
  • Estomac
CONT

Traitement [pour surdosage du tétranitrate de pentaérythritol]: Lavage gastrique ou émétique suivi de l'administration de charbon activé et d'un cathartique. Maintien de la tension artérielle par remplacement liquidien et, au besoin, l'administration de dopamine ou de lévartérénol.

Spanish

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