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The LAT article on AIDS in the U.S. emphasizes a more encouraging trend--hospices once filled with patients dying from AIDS are emptying and closing because their patients are getting better and leaving, a phenomenon dubbed "the Lazarus syndrome."
6Band 7Band the gastric emptying time course observed by Levitt, et al.
[ 31 ] simultaneously measured the rate of human gastric emptying and ethanol blood concentration with and without a meal and concluded that the rate of ethanol absorption was primarily limited by the rate of gastric emptying.
The days of hard-drinking men emptying bottles of vodka in plain, poorly lit bars are largely a thing of the past, though, and most young Poles today drink more beer (piwo) than vodka and other spirits.
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.