Improved gastric lavage with close system

ABSTRACT

Method: 73 patients were performed gastric lavage by an improved technique with new equipment. All of the patients were monitored clinical signs (pulse rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, SpO2, lung sound...) and tested (blood count, electrolyte, ECG, chest X-ray, toxic screening...) before and after doing gastric lavage. The results were compared to a retrospective study in 1998-2000 we found that complications are reduced significantly from 6.21% to 2.74%. In addition, there was not any severity complication; we only met two cases hypokalemia after doing gastric lavage. Conclusion: the improved technique with new equipment of gastric lavage would be safe for the patients, reduce significantly complication, and easy to implement.