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Routine Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Assessment of Gastric Antral Contents in Traumatic Emergency Surgical Patients for Prevention of Aspiration Pneumonitis: A Randomized Clinical Trial
2020-12-14
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<h4>Background: </h4> Polytrauma patients are at a higher risk of delayed gastric emptying. To assess gastric volume, a reliable diagnostic tool is needed to prevent the occurrence of aspiration pneumonia, which remains a serious complication associated with anesthesia. Gastric antral ultrasound can provide reliable information about the size of the gastric antrum in traumatized patients undergoing emergency surge...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6c81e684-ae4a-5028-a2ce-75dcfff4c8c0
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-125276/v1
