Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine· 2019Q1
Gastric ultrasound: deep inspiration for stomach identification and localization
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- 2019year
Short summary
Gastric ultrasound, a point-of-care tool, aids anesthesiologists in assessing gastric content to ensure safe anesthetic management.
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Key points
- Gastric ultrasound is a point-of-care testing method.
- It helps evaluate patients' gastric content.
- This evaluation supports anesthesiologists in determining safe anesthetic management.
- The technique has been available for about a decade.
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Abstract
To the editor, Since gastric ultrasound was introduced into point-of-care testing in the past decade, it has been helpful in evaluating patients’ gastric content and helping anesthesiologists to determine a safe anesthetic management plan. Fasting guidelines have been around for over 100 years.[1
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