Ultrasound as an alternative bedside tool to quickly confirm the position of the enteral catheter in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

Beyond the challenges for clinical management of the viral infection and its complications, intensive care unit (ICU) teams had to adapt their routines to a particularly elevated risk of healthcare workers contamination. [...]preventive strategies had to be implemented, mainly during orotracheal intubation and other aerosol-generating procedures. In the adult ICU of our hospital, we are currently enrolling ICU patients with enteral feeding requirement in a single-center observational study to investigate the concordance between US and CR regarding the EFC positioning. [...]in our experience, bedside US proved to be an effective, less time consuming and safe method to confirm the EFC position.