Diagnostics· 2024Q2
Role of Point-of-Care Gastric Ultrasound in Advancing Perioperative Fasting Guidelines
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- Q2SCImago
- 2024year
Short summary
Point-of-care gastric ultrasound can help standardize perioperative fasting guidelines, which are challenged by new factors like GLP-1 agonists and cannabis use.
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Key points
- Perioperative pulmonary aspiration is a serious risk addressed by fasting guidelines.
- Point-of-care gastric ultrasound can assess gastric contents.
- New factors like GLP-1 agonists, cannabis, and ERAS carbohydrate drinks complicate fasting guidelines.
- Gastric ultrasound can help standardize fasting protocols amidst these complexities.
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Abstract
Pulmonary aspiration in the perioperative period carries the risk of significant morbidity and mortality. As such, guidelines have been developed with the hopes of minimizing this risk by recommending fasting from solids and liquids over a specified amount of time. Point-of-care ultrasound has altered the landscape of perioperative medicine; specifically, gastric ultrasound plays a pivotal role in perioperative assessment. Further, the advent of glucagon-like-peptide-1 receptor agonists, the widespread use of cannabis, and Enhanced Recovery program carbohydrate beverage presents new challenges when attempting to standardize fasting guidelines. This review synthesizes the literature surrounding perioperative fasting guidelines specifically with regard to the use of point-of-care ultrasound in assessing for gastric contents and minimizing the risk of aspiration.
The authors' abstract, as published at the source. Diagnostics, 2024 · DOI ↗
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