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Although the study by Heyland and colleagues [ 9 ] suggests that gastrically fed patients may have a higher incidence of aspiration than those receiving post-pyloric feeding, other investigators have not replicated these findings [ 10 ] . In addition, many critically ill, injured, and postoperative patients have gastroparesis, which may limit their ability to tolerate gastric feeding [ 11 12 ] . Indeed, Mentec and colleagues [ 13 ] demonstrated that 79% of gastrically fed patients in a mixed medical/surgical ICU exhibited some degree of upper digestive intolerance caused by impaired gastric emptying.
When you see this snake swallow Jon Voight and then regurgitate him in front of Jennifer Lopez like a cat presenting a dead bird, when you see Voight give a little ironic wink before collapsing to the floor and dying in a puddle of digestive slime, you are witnessing one of those classic I-Don't-Think-So moments that help define the contemporary moviegoing experience.
Although Mentec and colleagues [ 13 ] demonstrated some degree of upper digestive intolerance in 79% of nasogastrically fed patients, only 4.5% were unable to tolerate continuation of gastric feeding.
[ 28 ] examined the association between NSAID use and risk of digestive cancers in a hospital-based case-control study.
Among the 16 men enrolled in the study, eight were admitted to the SICU following multiple trauma and eight following postoperative complications after major surgical procedures (vascular surgery, n = 1; cardiac surgery, n = 3; orthopedic surgery, n = 1; digestive surgery, n = 2; neurosurgery, n = 1).
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