Example sentences for: gastrically

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  • 68, P = 0.7) between those patients fed gastrically and those who received postpyloric tube feeding.

  • 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.

  • Although enteral nutrition was initiated sooner in the gastrically fed patients, patients fed into the small intestine 'caught up' with the patients fed into the stomach and overall received a non-significantly greater mean daily caloric intake (169 calories).

  • In the study conducted by Boivin and Levy [ 18 ] , all gastrically fed patients received erythromycin as a promotility agent.


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