Feasibility of perioperative volatile organic compound breath testing for prediction of paralytic ileus following laparoscopic colorectal resection.
Nader K FrancisNathan J CurtisE SalibB de Lacy CostelloN M LemmO GouldL CrillyJ AllisonN RatcliffePublished in: Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (2019)
Repeated VC breath sampling and analysis is feasible in the perioperative setting. An elevated ammonia concentration on the morning of surgery may be a potential predictor of POI.