ArticleJournal of anesthesia2016
Validity of ultrasonographic measurement of gastric volume in fasted pediatric patients without sedation.
Article in Journal of anesthesia, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03017066 (Ultrasound Assessment of Gastric Volume Following Preoperative Fasting Guideline in Pediatric Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Ultrasound Assessment of Gastric Volume Following Preoperative Fasting Guideline in Pediatric Patients
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Point-of-care ultrasound in nutrition assessment and enteral nutrition management of critically ill children: a scoping review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- A Comparative Study of Two Inspiratory Pressure Levels for Pressure-Controlled Face-Mask Ventilation in Children.Cureus · 2025Article
- Prediction of Gastric Residual Volume by Ultrasonography in Critically Ill Children Undergoing Enteral Nutrition.Critical care research and practice · 2025Article
- Gastric Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Acutely and Critically Ill Children (POCUS-ped): A Scoping Review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
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Abstract
Recently, gastric ultrasonography has been used as a noninvasive portable tool for evaluating gastric content and volume in adults and children. Pediatric patients are not always cooperative, especially younger ones, and it may be difficult to keep them in the appropriate scanning position without sedation. Hence, we modified the scanning method and position, and evaluated the efficacy of this alternative scanning technique in pediatric cases. We evaluated the gastric contents of 44 pediatric patients aged 4-14 years who were about to undergo elective surgery. Solid food and fluids were prohibited 8 and 2 h before anesthesia, respectively. Before anesthetic induction, we used gastric ultrasonography to measure the antral cross-sectional area in the supine position (supine CSA), irrespective of peristaltic contractions. The gastric volume was then aspirated using a multi-orifice catheter under general anesthesia. Supine CSA measured via this gastric ultrasonography method was positively correlated with gastric volume (r = 0.56, p < 0.0001). We concluded that our alternative method of measuring antral CSA may be applicable for children minimal gastric contents.
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