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Table 1 GIF score

From: Gastrointestinal Failure score in critically ill patients: a prospective observational study

Points

Clinical symptomatology

0

Normal gastrointestinal function

1

Enteral feeding <50% of calculated needs or no feeding 3 days after abdominal surgery

2

Food intolerance (enteral feeding not applicable due to high gastric aspirate volume, vomiting, bowel distension, or severe diarrhoea) or IAH

3

Food intolerance and IAH

4

Abdominal compartment syndrome

  1. GIF, Gastrointestinal Failure; IAH, intra-abdominal hypertension.
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