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gastric
(redirected from Gastric distention)

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gastric
of, relating to, near, or involving the stomach


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Transient LES relaxation is probably a physiologic response to gastric distention, which stimulates mechanical receptors in the fundus.
Although supraglottic jet ventilation provides excellent surgical exposure, it carries the risk of causing gastric distention as a result of high pressures and malalignment, inefficient or inefficient or ineffective ventilation, the blowing of blood and debris into the bronchi, vocal fold movement with ventilation, and an inability to monitor airway pressure.
 
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