Study on Preventive and Therapeutic Effect of Dachengqi Decoction for the Treatment of Critical Gastrointestinal Function Fail-ure

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1004-5775.2015.05.026

Abstract：Objective To study the preventive and therapeutic effect of Dachengqi Decoction for the treatment of critical gastrointestinal failure.Methods The clinical data of 112 cases of patients in critical conditions treated in the ICU of our hospital from December 2011 to December 2014 were retrospectively analyzed, which then according to the occurrence or absence of gastrointestinal dysfunction in the pa-tients were divided into a prevention group and a control group, each with 56 cases.Patients in the prevention group were given Dachengqi Decoction immediately after being admitted to ICU, whereas patients with the occurrence of gastrointestinal dysfunction in the control group were treated with Dachengqi Decoction.The treatment effects of the two groups were analyzed.Results The incidence of gastrointestinal dysfunction in the prevention group was lower than that in the control group, and the pH value of gastric juice of patients in the prevention group was higher than that in the control group.Besides, after the treatment, the gastrointestinal function of those with gastrointestinal dys-function in the control group was recovered, and the pH value of gastric juice was higher than before treatment.The above differences were all statistically significant (P<0.05).Conclusion Dachengqi Decoction is of positive significance in the prevention and treatment of crit-ically ill patients with gastrointestinal function failure, which can effectively reduce the incidence of gastrointestinal function failure and bal-ance the pH value of gastric juice in the patients.