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Available online /content/11/1/R16 Vol 11 No 1 Open Access Research The impact of admission diagnosis on gastric emptying in critically ill patients 1,2 1 3 2 1,2 Nam Q Nguyen , Mei P Ng , Marianne Chapman , Robert J Fraser and Richard H Holloway 1Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Adelaide Hospital, North Terrace, Adelaide, 5000, Australia 2Department of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Frome Road, Adelaide, 5000, Australia 3Department of Intensive Care, Royal Adelaide Hospital, North Terrace, Adelaide, 5000, Australia Corresponding author: Nam Q Nguyen, namphoung28@ Received: 11 Nov 2006 Revisions requested: 11 Jan 2007 Revisions received: 15 Jan 2007 Accepted: 8 Feb 2007 Published: 8 Feb 2007 Critical Care 2007, 11:R16 (doi:10.1186/cc5685) This article is online at: /content/11/1/R16 © 2007 Nguyen et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Disturbed gastric emptying (GE) occurs Results Overall, 60% of the patients had delayed GE and a commonly in critically ill patients. Admission diagnoses are mean GEC of 2.9 ± 0.1 and t50 of 163 ± 7 minutes. On believed to influence the incidence of delayed GE and univariate analysis, GE correlated significantly with older age, sub