Clinical Trial: Does Pre-operative Gastric Ultrasound Influence Anaesthetic Decision-Making in Chronic Pain Patients? A Prospective Observational Cohort.

U.S., April 18 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07537582) titled 'Does Pre-operative Gastric Ultrasound Influence Anaesthetic Decision-Making in Chronic Pain Patients? A Prospective Observational Cohort.' on March 12.

Brief Summary: Gastric POCUS has been validated and shown to be an accurate diagnostic tool in both healthy individuals and medically complex patient populations. Regional anaesthesiologists and pain management physicians frequently provide sedation or anaesthetic care for medically complex patients who fall outside the limited applicability of existing fasting guidelines, including patients with chronic pain, poor acute-on-chronic pain control, and those receiving acute or chronic ...