Are patients with clinically apparent aspiration during the perioperative period who do not develop symptoms within 2 hours at risk for respiratory sequelae?
Patients with perioperative aspiration who remain asymptomatic for 2 hours are unlikely to develop respiratory complications.
This study suggests that patients with clinically apparent aspiration who do not develop symptoms within 2 h are unlikely to have respiratory sequelae.
Warner et al. (Fri,) studied this question.