Does phenylephrine infusion improve blood flow to the stomach during oesophagectomy in the presence of a thoracic epidural analgesia?
An intravenous phenylephrine infusion can reverse the epidural bolus-induced reduction in blood flow at the anastomotic end of the newly formed gastric tube.
These findings suggest that the course of PD dimensions is fairly independent of each other, and that initial levels of PD dimensions have relatively little prognostic value for predicting the course of other PD dimensions.