Point‐of‐care gastric ultrasound: food for thought

AnaesthesiaVolume 79, Issue 2 p. 123-127 Editorial Point-of-care gastric ultrasound: food for thought C. Lyons, C. Lyons Fellow, Consultant Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UKSearch for more papers by this authorK. El-Boghdadly, Corresponding Author K. El-Boghdadly Consultant, Honorary Reader [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-9912-717X @elboghdadly Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK King's College London, London, UK Correspondence to: K. El-Boghdadly Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author C. Lyons, C. Lyons Fellow, Consultant Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UKSearch for more papers by this authorK. El-Boghdadly, Corresponding Author K. El-Boghdadly Consultant, Honorary Reader [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-9912-717X @elboghdadly Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK King's College London, London, UK Correspondence to: K. El-Boghdadly Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author First published: 28 November 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.16190 1 Fellow, 2 Consultant, Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK 3 Honorary Reader, King's College London, London, UK This editorial accompanies an article by Baettig et al., Anaesthesia 2023; 78: 1327–37. 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