Sentence examples for stomach flushing from inspiring English sources

We used stomach flushing to study the dietary habits of anuran species encountered, and provide empirical evidence of the ecological service provided by frogs in this agricultural landscape.

While stomach flushing is certainly an improvement ethically, the procedure requires animal capture and can have adverse effects on the sampled birds and/or their offspring [e.g. 7].

Determination of seabird diet usually relies on the analysis of stomach-content remains obtained through stomach flushing; this technique is both invasive and logistically difficult.

Historically stomach samples were obtained through lethal sampling [e.g. 2], [3]; however, during the last 20 years most studies have used stomach flushing as a non-lethal alternative for obtaining these samples [e.g. 4], [5], [6].

A maximum of two stomach flushes were performed and individuals were marked to ensure they were sampled only once.

The last explanation is almost certainly true in some cases since nearly 20% of the birds that were stomach flushed had empty stomachs.

We had planned to obtain faecal samples for genetic analysis from the same birds that were stomach flushed, our permits allowed collection of up to 100 stomach samples along with corresponding faecal samples.

If you have a pounding heart, sweats, anxiety (panic) attacks, butterflies, sick stomach, flushes, etc. or feel faint at the thought of eating out or when actually eating out, you have a recognised anxiety condition and should see a health professional for treatment.

However, very few of the birds defecated on capture and faeces therefore had to be collected from non-stomach flushed penguins over the same time period (n = 88).

There is no widely accepted, gold-standard way to ensure that a nasogastric tube succeeds in maintaining an empty stomach following flushing.

Evidence-based reviews suggest checking gastric residual volume (GRV) (defined as the volume left in the stomach after flushing an NGT) during gastric feeding [ 10, 13, 14] but do not specifically address how best to assess GRV, nor how to ensure that the measured GRV is accurate.