Hospital and Internal Medicine Podcast

Diabetic Gastric Emptying Abnormalities (and sometimes normal) - Part 1

05.09.2021 - By Gil Porat, M.D., FACP, CPTPlay

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Almost nobody feels comfortable managing DELAYED gastric emptying (gastroparesis) and very few medical providers even think about RAPID gastric emptying in their diabetic patients. Even if you send these patients to GI specialists, your blood sugar co-management of these patients can be heavily impacted by these issues. Is delayed gastric emptying always a bad thing? When your patient has upper GI symptoms, how often is it a gastric emptying abnormality? Time for some answers.

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