Ultrasonido Perioperatorio: El reto de aplicar una vieja tecnología en nuevos escenarios clínicos / Perioperative Ultrasound: The challenge of applying an old technology in new clinical settings

ABSTRACT

In anaesthesia, anticipating problems and responding quickly and effectively to peri-operative risks to the patient is crucial. As a result of recent technological advances over the last few decades, ultrasound has emerged as a tool to guide a huge number of procedures in the practice of various specialties. In particular in anaesthesia, it has become critical in establishing vascular accesses, providing regional anaesthesia, performing interventional procedures for acute and chronic pain relief, and for gathering relevant qualitative information for the diagnosis or treatment of low output syndromes, hypovolemia, acute pulmonary events, and for the assessment of gastric content as a risk for aspiration, and assessment of the airway, among other things.