The ‘full stomach’: full time for sloppy terminology?

Anaesthesia

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2018, Pages 1189-1190

  Kinsella, S M ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anaesthesia: general; anaesthesia: obstetric; full stomach; stomach contents; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CESAREAN SECTION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; STOMACH; STOMACH CONTENT; STOMACH PRESSURE; STOMACH SECRETION; ACID ASPIRATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; NOMENCLATURE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROCEDURES; STOMACH JUICE;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; HUMANS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RESPIRATORY ASPIRATION; STOMACH; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 85053336508     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.14362     Document Type: Editorial

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