The clinical application of bedside ultrasound for the assessment of the risk of aspiration during anesthesia

• DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1673-4378.2019.04.018
• Publication Date: 2019-04-15
• Authors: Rui Fu; Wenli Yu; Lili Jia; Hongyin Du; Guoqiang Zhou
• Keywords: Pulmonary aspiration; Repeatability

Mis-aspiration is a serious complication during peri-anesthesia. Bedside ultrasound can be used to assess the risk of aspiration by qualitative and quantitative estimation gastric contents. This review summarized recent literatures on reliability accuracy bedside for assessing aspiration. describes basic operation techniques procedures assessment patients with different special populations. has certain predictive value in peri-anesthesia, advantages reliability, repeatability. The study about utrasound estimating fluid volume continuously explored.

Key words: Ultrasound; Stomach; Aspiration; Perianesthesia