ArticleIntensive care medicine2009
Determining small intestinal transit time and pathomorphology in critically ill patients using video capsule technology.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Variation in small bowel transit time on capsule endoscopy.Annals of translational medicine · 2020Article
- Defining gastrointestinal transit time using video capsule endoscopy: a study of healthy subjects.Endoscopy international open · 2020Article
- Video capsule endoscopy as a tool for evaluation of obscure overt gastrointestinal bleeding in the intensive care unit.Endoscopy international open · 2018Article
- Intravenous citrulline generation test to assess intestinal function in intensive care unit patients.Clinical and experimental gastroenterology · 2017Article
- Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine 2009: I. Pneumonia and infections, sepsis, outcome, acute renal failure and acid base, nutrition and glycaemic control.Intensive care medicine · 2010Review
- Bench-to-bedside review: the gut as an endocrine organ in the critically ill.Critical care (London, England) · 2010Review
- Gastrointestinal dysmotility in critically ill patients.Annals of gastroenterologyReview
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Abstract
purposeGastrointestinal motility can be impaired by serious illness or medications, compromising enteral feeding in critical care patients. We compared small bowel transit time and morphology in neurosurgical critical care (ICU) patients with those in healthy subjects.
methodsWe evaluated small intestinal transit time, quality of visualization and intestinal morphology in 16 ICU patients (Glasgow Coma Scale score from 6 to 14) and 16 healthy ambulatory patients. Video data were obtained with PillCam SB capsules (Given Imaging Ltd., Yoqneam, Israel).
resultsTransit time was 5.1 h (3.9-7.7) (median [IQR]) in ICU and 4.3 (4.1-5.3 h) in ambulatory patients (P = 0.481). Six ICU patients (37%) and two ambulatory patients (12%) had pathological findings (ulcers, petechia, erosions) (P = 0.10).
conclusionsMedian small bowel transit times in critically ill neurosurgical patients were similar to those in ambulatory subjects, although transit times were more variable in the critically ill patients.
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