Sebrechts Tom, Perlas Anahi, Abbas Sheriff, Van de Putte Peter
From the Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium.
Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
A A Pract. 2018 Aug 15;11(4):106-108. doi: 10.1213/XAA.0000000000000755.
Fasting guidelines are used to prevent perioperative aspiration but they are only reliable in healthy elective patients. Point-of-care gastric ultrasound allows qualitative and quantitative evaluation of gastric contents at the bedside. This case report describes the use of serial gastric point-of-care ultrasound to evaluate the effect of prokinetic therapy with domperidone and erythromycin in an elective surgical patient with multiple comorbidities who presented with a full stomach.
