ArticleAnnals of intensive care2012
Should we measure intra-abdominal pressures in every intensive care patient?
Article in Annals of intensive care, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- The Correlation between Head of Bed Angle and Intra-Abdominal Pressure of Intubated Patients; a Pre-Post Clinical Trial.Archives of academic emergency medicine · 2021Article
- Abdominal compartment syndrome due to extremely elongated sigmoid colon and rectum plus fecal impaction caused by disuse syndrome and diabetic neuropathy: a case report and review of the literature.Journal of medical case reports · 2020Review
- Acute kidney injury and intra-abdominal hypertension in burn patients in intensive care.Revista Brasileira de terapia intensiva · 2018Article
- A case of abdominal compartment syndrome derived from simple elongated sigmoid colon in an elderly man.International journal of surgery case reports · 2016Article
- Acute gastrointestinal injury in the intensive care unit: a retrospective study.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2015Article
- The open abdomen, indications, management and definitive closure.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2015Article
- Effect of intra-abdominal pressure on respiratory function in patients undergoing ventral hernia repair.World journal of critical care medicine · 2013Article
- Enteral nutrition discontinuation and outcomes in general critically ill patients.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2013Article
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Abstract
Intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) is seldom measured by default in intensive care patients. This review summarises the current evidence on the prevalence and risk factors of intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) to assist the decision-making for IAP monitoring.IAH occurs in 20% to 40% of intensive care patients. High body mass index (BMI), abdominal surgery, liver dysfunction/ascites, hypotension/vasoactive therapy, respiratory failure and excessive fluid balance are risk factors of IAH in the general ICU population. IAP monitoring is strongly supported in mechanically ventilated patients with severe burns, severe trauma, severe acute pancreatitis, liver failure or ruptured aortic aneurysms. The risk of developing IAH is minimal in mechanically ventilated patients with positive end-expiratory pressure < 10 cmH2O, PaO2/FiO2 > 300, and BMI < 30 and without pancreatitis, hepatic failure/cirrhosis with ascites, gastrointestinal bleeding or laparotomy and the use of vasopressors/inotropes on admission. In these patients, omitting IAP measurements might be considered.In conclusions, clear guidelines to select the patients in whom IAP measurements should be performed cannot be given at present. In addition to IAP measurements in at-risk patients, a clinical assessment of the signs of IAH should be a part of every ICU patient's bedside evaluation, leading to prompt IAP monitoring in case of the slightest suspicion of IAH development.
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