Organizational knowledge translation strategies for allied health professionals in traumatology settings: realist review protocol.

Background: Knowledge translation (KT) is an important means of improving the health service quality. Most research on the effectiveness of KT strategies has focused on individual strategies, i.e.

Evaluation of a technique for blind placement of post-pyloric feeding tubes in intensive care: application in patients with gastric ileus.

Objective: To evaluate a blind 'active' technique for the bedside placement of post-pyloric enteral feeding tubes in a critically ill population with proven gastric ileus.

Design And Setting: An open study to evaluate the success rate and duration of the technique in cardiothoracic and general intensive care units of a tertiary referral hospital.

Patients: 20 consecutive, ventilated patients requiring enteral nutrition, where feeding had failed via the gastric route.