Table 3 Gastrointestinal complications
Control
(GRV: 200)
Study
(GRV: 500)
P
Patients 165 157
Patients with
gastrointestinal
complications
105 (63.6%) 75 (47.8%) 0.004
Patients with HGRV 70 (42.4%) 42 (26.8%) 0.003
Patients with abdominal
distension
18 (10.9%) 16 (10.2%) 0.83
Patients with diarrhea 33 (20.0%) 31 (19.7%) 0.95
Patients with vomiting 24 (14.5%) 17 (10.8%) 0.31
Patients with regurgitation 12 (7.3%) 8 (5.1%) 0.41
Patients with aspiration 0 1 (0.6%) 0.48
GRV gastric residual volume, HGRV high gastric residual volume