Gastric residual volume in critically ill patients: A dead marker or still alive?

Nutrition in Clinical Practice

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 59-71

  Elke, Gunnar ^a   Felbinger, Thomas W ^b   Heyland, Daren K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b Neuperlach Medical Center   (Germany)

^c KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

critical illness; enteral nutrition; gastric residual volume; gastrointestinal motility; gastrointestinal transit; pneumonia; respiratory aspiration; ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ACID ASPIRATION; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIARRHEA; DISEASE MARKER; ENTERIC FEEDING; GASTRIC RESIDUAL VOLUME; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY DISORDER; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMAN; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NOMENCLATURE; NURSING STAFF; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PNEUMONIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESIDUAL VOLUME; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH FUNCTION; STOMACH MOTILITY; VENTILATED PATIENT; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; ADVERSE EFFECTS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; METABOLISM; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STOMACH; STOMACH JUICE;

CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ENTERAL NUTRITION; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; GASTRIC EMPTYING; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; STOMACH;

EID: 84921456058     PISSN: 08845336     EISSN: 19412452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0884533614562841     Document Type: Review

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