To Correlate the Impact of Disease Severity on Gastric Residual Volume among the Critically Ill Patients

Sherina Koshy, Susan Kumar, Girish Narayan

Abstract: Feeding often receives lower priority compared with other intensive care units (ICU) treatments such as hemodynamic and ventilation control. A descriptive co-relational study design was adopted and a quantitative research design was applied by recruiting 88 subjects for the study using nonprobability purposive sampling technique. It was concluded from the study that on days 1 and 3, there was a moderate positive statistical significance whereas on day 2, there was a weak positive statistical significance between gastric residual volume and disease severity. Measuring gastric residual volume among critically ill patients in ICU is a common practice because the patients are likely to experience delayed gastric emptying, intolerance of enteral feeding, infections, and mortality. More than 50% of patients in ICU have gastric dysmotility, leading to slow gastric emptying and can induce several problems like inadequate caloric intake.

Keywords: APACHE-II score, Gastric residual volume, critically ill patients

How to Cite?: Sherina Koshy, Susan Kumar, Girish Narayan, "To Correlate the Impact of Disease Severity on Gastric Residual Volume among the Critically Ill Patients", Volume 12 Issue 3, March 2023, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Pages: 1172-1177, https://www.ijsr.net/getabstract.php?paperid=SR23315191417, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21275/SR23315191417