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Successful postpyloric feeding tube insertion using prokinetic drugs for nasoenteric tube placement: A network
Jia-Hong Liu1, Wen-Juan Wang1, Jing Zhang1
1Department of Emergency Intensive Care Unit, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Union Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P.R. China.
Objectives:
The objective was to compare the effects of prokinetic drugs on the success of postpyloric nasoenteric tube placement using network meta-analysis methods.
Materials And Methods:
Articles from PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library were retrieved up to April 18, 2021. Eligible studies were randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that investigated the effect of prokinetic drugs on postpyloric nasoenteric tube placement. Reviews, retrospective studies, observational studies, letters to the editors, and conference abstracts were excluded. Biases in each study were identified by using the tool recommended by the Cochrane Collaboration. Stata14.0 software were used to process the network meta-analysis.
Results:
A total of 12 eligible RCTs with 777 patients receiving postpyloric nasoenteric tube placement were finally included for analysis. Patients receiving the following drugs appeared to have significant success with postpyloric feeding tube insertion compared with placebo: metoclopramide (odds ratio [OR] = 2.27; 95% CrI, 1.53-3.37), erythromycin (OR = 1.88; 95% CrI, 1.17-3.19), and domperidone (OR = 2.39; 95% CrI, 1.31-4.35). The surface under the cumulative ranking of placebo, erythromycin, metoclopramide, and domperidone were respectively 9.8%, 73.0%, 62.6%, and 54.6%. Erythromycin had an advantage over the other treatments in success postpyloric feeding tube insertion.
Conclusions:
Erythromycin may have the greatest possibility to improve success postpyloric feeding tube insertion.
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