The gastric tonometer: A valuable monitor of splanchnic perfusion?

Anaesthesia

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 161-170

  Trinder, T J ^a   Lavery, G G ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Measurement techniques; tonometry; Monitoring; gastrointestinal pH

Indexed keywords

ACIDOSIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; MAJOR SURGERY; MONITORING; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; PERFUSION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW; STOMACH MUCOSA; STOMACH PH; TONOMETRY;

GASTRIC MUCOSA; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MANOMETRY; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PARTIAL PRESSURE; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 0029882149     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1996.tb07706.x     Document Type: Article

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