Feasibility and Utility of Routine Point of Care Gastric Ultrasonography in Patients Undergoing Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Procedures: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Hari KalagaraRakesh V SondekoppamAli M AhmedKrishna VenkataAlbert PierceKaehler J RothRachel MitchellDavid ReddenKondal R Kyanam Kabir BaigShajan Peter

Published in: Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (2023)

In daily clinical practice, qualitative POCUS determination of residual gastric content is a feasible and useful technique to identify patients at risk of aspiration before upper GI endoscopy procedures.

Keyphrases

clinical practice
patients undergoing
small bowel
magnetic resonance imaging
physical activity
systematic review
ultrasound guided
contrast enhanced
molecularly imprinted
solid phase extraction
high resolution
mass spectrometry