Serial Measurements of Refractive Index, Glucose and Protein to Assess Gastric Liquid Nutrient Transport-A Proof-of-Principal Study.

ABSTRACT: Delayed gastric emptying contributes to complications as aspiration or malnutrition. Among patients suffering from acute neurological diseases, motility disorders are prevalent but poorly understood. Thus, methods to measure gastric emptying are required to allow for appropriate adaptions of individual enteral nutrition algorithms. For enterally fed patients repetitive concentration measurements of gastric content have been proposed to assess gastric emptying. This approach can be used to calculate the gastric residual volume (GRV) and transport of nutrition formula (NF), but it has not yet been implemented in clinical routine. The aim of this study was to investigate whether refractometry or other likewise straightforward analytical approaches produce the best results under in vitro

SUBMITTER: Wittstock M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8850719 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature