Mohamed Ebraheem Elmesserey Author

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Feeding intolerance and gastric dysmotility in critically ill child how much we know?

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Mohamed Ebraheem Elmesserey

 

 

Gastric dysmotility is common in critically ill children. It is defined as the functional impairment of the stomach's capacity to move content forward by abnormally slow and/or uncoordinated activity of the gastric and antroduodenal musculature. The most common manifestation of gastric dysmotility in this cohort is delayed gastric emptying (GE), which is defined as prolongation in the time required to empty the stomach's contents. Gastric dysmotility may be a consequence of critical illness and the therapies provided in this setting. In critically ill children the prevalence of delayed GE has been estimated to be 50%. However, current methods of identifying delayed GE in this population are inaccurate, therefore the true rate of delayed GE in the pediatric intensive care unit (P... view more»

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