Effect of Abdominal Massage on the Gastric Residual Volume (GRV) among Patients with Nasogastric (NG) Tube Feeding Admitted in Intensive Care Units (ICU).
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: R402- Coma
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2022/01/039689
- Lead Sponsor
- ot funded by any institution its self funded
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Open to Recruitment
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
1. GCS score� 8 at first intensive care units (ICU) admission.
2. Age more than 18 years.
3. Having a nasogastric (NG) tube and accept feed for feeding.
4. Having proper GI functioning (bowel sounds should be present).
Exclusion criteria for the selection of participants will be
1. Patients diagnosed with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).
2. Pregnant women.
3. Patients with no abdominal radiotherapy and abdominal surgery performed in the past 6 weeks.
4. Patients with abdominal contraindications, such as an abdominal tumor, peritonitis, ascites, intestinal obstruction, perforation, abdominal surgery, or diarrhea and ileus.
5. Patients with congenital malformation, such as congenital heart disease and abnormal digestive tract.
6. Patients with sepsis, hypotension, and on vasopressin medication (written in patientââ?¬•s case file).
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To assess the pre-intervention and post-intervention gastric residual volume (GRV) was among patients in the experimental and control group.Timepoint: Patients in the intervention group will receive 20 min of abdominal massage twice a day, and the interval between two massages will be 2 hrs. <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>In all three days, before the intervention and 1 hour after the second massage, the GRV was measured and investigated.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Adverse eventTimepoint: with in 24 hours related to intervention