Ultrasound evaluation of the stomach and gastric emptying in pregnant women at term: a case-control study.

CONCLUSION: In pregnant women at term, the stomach does not seem to be able to expand immediately after the meal. The transit of food is completed later than in not pregnant women. The ultrasound of the stomach allows identifying delays gastric emptying and highlighting patients at risk of aspiration. PMID: 26554613 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Minerva Anestesiologica - Category: Anesthesiology Tags: Minerva Anestesiol Source Type: research