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© 2019 Indian Journal of Anaesthesia | Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow We read with interest two publications in the Indian Journal of Anaesthesia that used gastric ultrasound (GUS) to… Click to show full abstract
© 2019 Indian Journal of Anaesthesia | Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow We read with interest two publications in the Indian Journal of Anaesthesia that used gastric ultrasound (GUS) to preoperatively assess gastric contents and residual gastric volumes (RGVs) in fasted adult surgical patients.[1,2] GUS is used increasingly as an aspiration risk assessment tool and we congratulate the authors for their respective contributions. However, we are concerned about the internal and external validity of both studies for the following reasons given below.
Journal Title: Indian Journal of Anaesthesia
Year Published: 2019
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