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Gastric emptying after head injury
Author(s) -
POWER I.,
EASTON J C.,
TODD J. G.,
NIMMO W. S.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1989.tb11442.x
Subject(s) - gastric emptying , medicine , gastroenterology , head injury , head (geology) , anesthesia , stomach , surgery , geomorphology , geology
Summary Gastric emptying was measured in patients after head injury and compared with that of healthy volunteers using the rate of paracetamol absorption as an indicator of gastric emptying rate. There was a trend towards slower gastric emptying in the head injured patients, but the dyerences were not statistically significant.