Gastrointestinal function in intensive care patients: Terminology, definitions and management. Recommendations of the ESICM Working Group on Abdominal Problems

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 384-394

  Blaser, Annika Reintam ^a,b   Malbrain, Manu L N G ^c   Starkopf, Joel ^a,d   Fruhwald, Sonja ^e   Jakob, Stephan M ^b   De Waele, Jan ^f   Braun, Jan Peter ^g   Poeze, Martijn ^h   Spies, Claudia ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Stuivenberg General Hospital   (Belgium)

^d TARTU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Estonia)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^f GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^g CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^h MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Classification; Definitions; Failure; Feeding intolerance; Gastrointestinal function; Intensive care; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; DOMPERIDONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LAXATIVE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; ACUTE DISEASE; COLONOSCOPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM INJURY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRAABDOMINAL HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NUTRITIONAL INTOLERANCE; PARALYTIC ILEUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOMACH PARESIS; VOMITING; WORKING GROUP ON ABDOMINAL PROBLEM;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84862539480     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-011-2459-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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