Effects of abdominal massage on gastrointestinal function in ICU patients: a meta-analysis
Article Category: Original article
Published Online: Dec 31, 2019
Page range: 349 - 356
Received: May 06, 2019
Accepted: Jul 02, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/FON-2019-0040
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Objective
To evaluate the effects of abdominal massage on gastrointestinal function in the intensive care unit (ICU) patients.
Methods
Randomized controlled trials about the effects of abdominal massage on gastrointestinal function in ICU patients were included from multiple electronic databases: PubMed, Web of Science, the Cochrane Library, Embase, CINAHL, China Academic Journals Full-Text Database (CNKI), Wanfang Database, and CQVIP, until November 2018. Studies were selected according to inclusion and exclusion criteria, extracting data and assessing. Data were analyzed by RevMan 5.3.
Results
Nine studies with 720 patients were included. The results of meta-analysis in the intervention group were as follows: abdomen circumference: mean difference (MD)=-4.22, 95% confidence interval (CI)=(-6.20, -2.24),
Conclusions
Abdominal massage is effective in reducing abdominal distension, gastric residual, and vomiting. When the intervention period was <7 days, abdominal massage could not reduce the abdominal circumference in ICU patients, and when the intervention period was equal to 7 days, abdominal massage could reduce the abdominal circumference in ICU patients.