The effect of abdominal massage on feeding tolerance

Not Applicable

Conditions: Condition 1: Coma. Condition 2: Head trauma. Condition 3: Brain tumor. Condition 4: Malignant Brain tumor. Condition 5: Alzheimer.
Coma, unspecified
Post- concussional syndrome
Benign neoplasm of brain and other parts of central nervous system
Malignant neoplasm of brain
Alzheimer disease

Registration Number: IRCT2014090618815N1

Lead Sponsor: Vice Chancellor for Research of Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Complete

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 80

Inclusion Criteria

Subjects who were being fed intermittently enterally via a nasogastric tube; Over age 18 years up to 70 years; Recently started on intermittent enteral feeding, maximum after giving 3 feed; Have not received metoclopramide, erythromycin, cisapride, and anticholinergic agents; Have not received radiotherapy treatment and surgery on the abdominal region in the previous 6 weeks; Have no contraindication to abdominal massage for examples: cellulitis, abdominal mass, peritonitis, abdominal aneurysm, ascites, diverticulitis, probability of thromboembolic events in recent one year, positive history and probability of DVT in one recent year.

Exclusion criteria: Have two times consecutively vomiting( less than 12 hours); Develop diarrhea more than 3 times a day; Receive metoclopramide for vomiting; Discharge patients from ICU or death less than 3 days; Make patients NPO more than 12 hours for procedures or laboratory tests.

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type: interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Gastric residual volume. Timepoint: before every feeding. Method of measurement: with 50 cc feeding syring.;Diarrhea. Timepoint: Every shift. Method of measurement: Frequency.;Vomiting. Timepoint: Every shift. Method of measurement: Frequency.

Secondary Outcome Measures