ALTHOUGH expected to be increasingly rare, death and a considerable morbidity still follow the aspiration of gastric contents into the lungs in the anesthetic period. The exact rate of occurrence ...

The Accidental Infiltration of Food or Bacteria Into the Lungs Aspiration pneumonia is a type of pneumonia caused by the ...

Using this technique, an increase in aspirate volume was observed in 17 of the 23 cases in which small bowel tubes displaced upward into the stomach; the mean increase was 50.7 ± 16.5 mL (range ...