Administration of enteric contrast material before abdominal CT in children: current practices and controversies.

摘要

Anesthesiologists' are becoming increasingly involved in providing sedation and/or anesthesia for children undergoing medical imaging procedures. The challenge lies in balancing technical factors governing the image quality of the study with safety concerns stemming from risks related to anesthetizing a child with a potentially full stomach for an elective CT. In this commentary we review the issues related to sedating/anesthetizing a child for a CT scan who has recently been given enteric contrast medium (ECM).