Trust your gut? Evaluating non-expert gastric ultrasound performance – A prospective observational cohort study
Examiners with limited experience in ultrasound diagnostics may accurately identify a full stomach in normal-weight volunteers after a standardized training sequence. However, the detected specificity of 0.63 was low, and more focused training on the ultrasound anatomy of an empty stomach may be needed to rule out an empty stomach in a clinical scenario.
Authors
- Eckhard Mauermann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5592-0822)
- Reza Kaviani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0938-4533)
- Firmin Kamber (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4405-6420)
- Sarah Baumann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1854-0032)
- Thierry Girard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8641-4006)
Institutions
- University of Basel (CH)
- University Hospital of Basel (CH)
- University Hospital of Zurich (CH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
- Published
- 2025-11-10
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinane.2025.112053
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.05