Cristian Arzola, MD
Vancouver, British Columbia—Although rare, pulmonary aspiration of gastric contents remains one of the most feared complications in obstetric anesthesia. A research team in Canada has addressed this occurrence by creating a predictive model that uses bedside gastric ultrasound, which accurately estimates gastric volume based on patient demographics and the cross-sectional area of the antrum.
“Given the popularity of bedside ultrasound, we thought we might be able