Anesthesia for Patients with a Full Stomach.

Accession number;03A0251571
Title;Anesthesia for Patients with a Full Stomach.
Author; FUJITA YOSHIHISA (Kawasaki Medical School, JPN) SARI ATSUO (Kawasaki Medical School, JPN)
Journal Title;Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
Journal Code:Z0633B
ISSN:0387-3668
VOL.27;NO.;PAGE.465-474(2003)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.3, TBL.2, REF.19
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;Full stomach is the condition that the solid matter and water content taken in remain in the stomach, and the stomach contents are not vacant.In the anesthesia of patients with full stomach, there are risks of erroneous deglutition and erroneous deglutition pneumonia due to the inflow of stomach contents to tracheae, caused by vomiting and counterflow in the perioperative period.The pneumonia due to erroneous deglutition is one of the anesthesia complications which are the most fearful to anesthesiologists.From the large-scale clinical research data and the experimental research result concerning the anesthesia-related erroneous deglutition, the frequency, the risk factor, and the mechanism causing the counterflow were outlined.Moreover, the practice of anesthesia in the patients with full stomach was described.