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Thiopentone Induced Paralytic Ileus in Super Refractory Status Epilepticus: Erythromycin to the Rescue [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2017 Neurocritical care, a unique specialty requiring skill and adeptness presents us with many challenging situations. Management of super refractory status epilepticus warrants the use of intravenous anaesthetic agents and along with it comes its various ...
Karen Ruby Lionel, Ajay Prasad Hrishi
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The potential of ghrelin as a prokinetic. [PDF]
, 2009 International audienceGhrelin is a 28 amino-acid peptide discovered in 1999. It is synthesized mainly in endocrine cells of the gastric mucosa and secreted into the blood. Physiological contributions of the peptide in human include probably regulation of
Poitras, Pierre, Tomasetto, Catherine
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Medical treatment of functional dyspepsia [PDF]
Kosin Medical Journal, 2015 Functional dyspepsia (FD) is a condition in which upper abdominal symptoms, such as epigastralgia, postprandial discomfort, and bloating, occur in the absence of any organic or metabolic disease that could explain the symptoms.
Sung Eun Kim
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Gastric residual volume in children: a study comparing efficiency of erythromycin and metoclopramide as prokinetic agents [PDF]
, 2001 Metoclopramide may be used to stimulate gastric emptying when anaesthetizing children for emergency operations. Unfortunately, metoclopramide is associated with extrapyramidal side effects.
Harmer, M. +2 more
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The independent risk factors of early diarrhoea in enteral nutrition for ICU patients
Journal of International Medical Research, 2019 Objective To investigate the prevalence of and factors associated with diarrhoea in the early stage of enteral nutrition in critically ill patients in intensive care units (ICUs).
Weiting Chen +4 more
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New Developments in Prokinetic Therapy for Gastric Motility Disorders
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 Prokinetic agents amplify and coordinate the gastrointestinal muscular contractions to facilitate the transit of intra-luminal content. Following the institution of dietary recommendations, prokinetics are the first medications whose goal is to improve ...
Michael Camilleri, Jessica Atieh
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CURRENT PHARMACOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT IN UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING
Праці Наукового товариства імені Шевченка. Медичні науки, 2023 Upper gastrointestinal bleeding is a common reason for presentation to the hospital. Appropriate resuscitation followed by endoscopic assessment and endotherapy for high-risk lesions (active bleeding or non-bleeding with visible vessels) forms the ...
Josh Orpen-Palmer, Adrian J Stanley
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Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2021 Objective: Impaired gastric emptying is a common cause of delayed feeding in critically ill children. Post-pyloric feeding may help improve feeding intolerance and nutritional status and, hence, contribute to a better outcome.
Sirima Ketsuwan +7 more
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Erythromycin as a prokinetic agent in infants and children [PDF]
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2001 Erythromycin has been used as an antibiotic for more than four decades, but only in the last 10 years have other therapeutic benefits of this agent been exploited. Animal and human studies have demonstrated a prokinetic effect on the gastrointestinal tract at sub‐antimicrobial doses (typically a quarter or less of the antibiotic dose). A limited number
J. I. Curry +2 more
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Prokinetic drugs for feed intolerance in critical illness: current and potential therapies [PDF]
, 2009 Studies consistently show that nasogastric nutrition delivers only about 60% of nutritional goals in critically ill patients. The predominant reason is abnormal gastric motility, leading to delayed gastric emptying, which is evident clinically as large ...
Deane, A., Chapman, M., Fraser, R.
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