ArticleCureus2023
Rapid Evaluation of Gastric Content With Ultrasound: An Educational Tool.
Article in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.
- Ultrasound evaluation of gastric emptying for two different quantities of milk in elementary school-aged children.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Trial
- Perioperative POCUS: Technical Considerations and Applications for the Pediatric Anesthesiologist.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Non-insulin diabetes medicines: a narrative review for anaesthetists and intensivists.British journal of anaesthesia · 2025Review
- Optimizing pediatric preoperative fasting management: a survey of practices and real durations in Chinese hospitals.BMC anesthesiology · 2025Article
- Point-of-Care Ultrasound: A Vital Tool for Anesthesiologists in the Perioperative and Critical Care Settings.Cureus · 2024Review
- Development of an Artificial Soft Solid Gel Using Gelatin Material for High-Quality Ultrasound Diagnosis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Pulmonary aspiration is a severe complication in patients receiving anesthesia for surgical procedures. The risk and severity of aspiration are significantly higher in the presence of substantial gastric contents. Bedside ultrasound imaging of the gastric antrum is emerging as a rapid and valuable method to evaluate gastric contents before surgery. Rapid gastric ultrasound using a three-category grading system promotes timely decision-making to help in emergent or urgent surgeries by identifying patients with potentially high gastric volumes or solid food contents. In emergent cases with limited time, a single ultrasound view of the gastric antrum is still likely to yield helpful information. In this report, we argue that bedside ultrasound offers a more reliable assessment of gastric contents than assumptions based on time-based fasting guidelines.
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