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Some may have delayed emptying as in pregnancy, diabetes or neuromuscular disease. Ultrasound can help us determine NPO status quickly and more accurately \u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003Cstrong>[00:00:30]\u003C\u002Fstrong> than history alone. This lets us do a better job of assessing the risk of aspiration. In adult patients, we'll use an abdominal or curvilinear transducer, to allow for the best visualization. In pediatric patients, we can often use a linear transducer. We evaluate the stomach using two different positions. Start with the patient in supine position and place the transducer in a long-axis orientation in the subxiphoid space. Fan the transducer \u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003Cstrong>[00:01:00] \u003C\u002Fstrong>from the patient's right to left to obtain an image of the antrum. This creates a scanning plane, as shown here, looking through the liver and deep to the stomach. Then we repeat this process with the patient in the right lateral decubitus position. This increases the sensitivity of the exam. This transducer positioning creates an image as we see here. Our goal is to recognize the antrum, just adjacent to the tip of the liver and sitting superior to the aorta and \u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003Cstrong>[00:01:30] \u003C\u002Fstrong>superior mesenteric artery. The antrum has a characteristic appearance on ultrasound, with a series of layers corresponding to the layers of the stomach. There's the outermost serosa, followed by the muscularis propria, the submucosa, and then the muscularis mucosa. At the interior, we have the mucosal layer itself. Our goal here is to examine the antrum to look for gastric content. An empty stomach will have a collapsed \u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003Cstrong>[00:02:00] \u003C\u002Fstrong>antrum, where the anterior and posterior surfaces are in direct contact, as we see here. 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