GASTRIC DYSMOTILITY IS COMMON IN CRITICALLY ILL patients. The pathophysiology is multifactorial including the severity and etiology of the underlying critical illness, use of narcotic analgesia and other sedatives, decreased blood flow from shock, and use of vasopressors. Gastric dysmotility results in delayed gastric emptying that may place patients at risk of developing complications such as ...

The degree of lung distension during quiet respiration, the so-called respiratory position or resting expiratory level, is essentially determined by a balance between the passive forces produced by the thoracic wall and the active forces due to the elastic properties of the lung. Therefore the interplay of these forces has a direct role in determining the extent of the functional residual capac...

BACKGROUND Gasretention in the peritoneal cavity plays an important role in inducing postoperative pain after laparoscopy, which is inevitably retained in the peritoneal cavity. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to detect the relation between the volume of residual gas and severity of shoulder and abdominal pain. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this Prospective study 55 women who were referred f...