Comparison of gastric emptying time between breast-fed and formula milk-fed infants less than 6  months old, using gastric ultrasound-An observational study

CONCLUSION: In our series, the gastric emptying times in breast-fed and formula-fed infants less than 6 months old were similar. Our results support the fasting guidelines of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care 2022, that is, 3 h for breastfeeding and 4 h for formula milk feeding. In addition, this shows that the Schmitz's and Spencer's formulae used to calculate the gastric volume based on ultrasound measurement of the antral cross-sectional area are not comparable in infants less than 6 months.PMID:38323713 | DOI:10.1111/pan.14841

Source: Paediatric Anaesthesia - February 7, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Debashis Das Anjan Trikha Manpreet Kaur Thilaka Muthiah Ravinder Kumar Pandey Basavraj Ankalji Kumble Seetharama Madhusudhan Deep Narayan Srivastava Preet Mohinder Singh Source Type: research