Incidence of Gastric Mucosal Injury as Measured by Reactance in Critically Ill Patients

This study shows that gastric ischemia as estimated by gastric reactance has a very high incidence in the critically ill, independently of the reason for admission. High reactance is related with higher morbidity in agreement with other reports using different methods of assessing splanchnic hypoperfusion in this patient population.

Source: Journal of Intensive Care Medicine - July 14, 2013 Category: Intensive Care Authors: Beltran, N. E., Ceron, U., Sanchez-Miranda, G., Remolina, M., Godinez, M. M., Peralta, I. Y., Sacristan, E. Tags: Review of a Large Clinical Series Source Type: research