Metoclopramide Given Pre‐operatively Empties the Stomach
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
- Vol. 29 (3) , 322-325
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-6576.1985.tb02208.x
Abstract
Sixty adult patients admitted for emergency major orthopedic surgery were studied according to a doubleblind, randomized design in order to evaluate if a single dose of 20 mg metoclopramide given intravenously at least 90 min before premedication could evacuate the stomach before anesthesia. Three patients were excluded. X-ray examination following intake of barium sulfate before anesthesia showed 10 patients with a full stomach, all belonging to the placebo group. This study demonstrates significantly fewer (P< 0.002) patients with a full stomach before anesthesia after metoclopramide, indicating that administration of metoclopramide reduces the risk of aspiration of gastric contents to the lungs during anesthesia.Keywords
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