Prokinetic drugs for gastric emptying in critically ill ventilated patients: Analysis through breath testing

Combined metoclopramide-continuous low-dose erythromycin was found to be the best protocol in the current study to increase GER in ventilated patients. It should be tested as a first-line prokinetic therapy in ventilated patients with poor gastric emptying in further randomized controlled studies. The breath-test device presented in this study can be a user-friendly and practical method to monitor GER, enabling individual tailoring of prokinetic therapy. Further studies to explore its utility are warranted.