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Despite poor gastric emptying, small bowel function usually remains relatively intact and placement of a post-pyloric small bowel feeding tube may allow for the administration of enteral nutrition in these patients.
[ 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.
However, a few times the owners have arrived while I'm emptying the machine, and they have been apoplectic!
The gamma distribution is clearly superior to poly-exponential functions for fitting the initial time delay in absorption associated with gastric emptying.
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.