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1. Intraoperative and early postoperative gastric intramucosal pH predicts morbidity and mortality after major abdominal surgery / Discussion
...automated air tonometer was used for gastric pHi monitoring. Twenty-eight elective...was a significant decrease of the gastric pHi at the first hour intraoperatively...Intraoperative and early postoperative gastric pHi is a reliable predictor of patient...
April 1, 2001; The American Surgeon

2. Splanchnic Hypoperfusion-Directed Therapies in Trauma: A Prospective, Randomized Trial
...assess the combined benefits of gastric pHi and ischemia-reperfusion therapies...protocols. We hypothesized that gastric pHi-directed therapy would improve...gastric tonometer (group II), and a gastric pHi-driven resuscitation protocol...
March 1, 2005; The American Surgeon

3. Serial pHi measurement as a predictor of mortality, organ failure, and hospital stay in surgical patients / Discussion
...followed, and those with low pHi values (<7.35) also had a significantly higher mortality. Gys et al.10 measured gastric pHi in 59 postsurgical patients on admission to the ICU. Patients with an admission pHi less than 7.32 had a 37 per cent...
August 1, 1999; The American Surgeon