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Protecting the gut and the liver in the critically ill

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1994

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Mark Smithies, TAI HWEI YEE, Lisa A. Jackson, Richard Beale, David Bihari

Critical Care Medicine

Abstract

Dopexamine improves gastric intramucosal pH, and thus, splanchnic oxygenation. This improvement in gastric intramucosal pH appears to be independent of dopexamine's systemic effects.