منابع مشابه
Preoperative fasting in children.
C hildren undergo a preoperative fast in an attempt to minimize the fluid and solid food component of gastric contents. The importance of a preoperative fast was acknowledged early in the evolution of anesthesia as a discipline of medicine. In response to concerns about the aspiration of gastric contents, a prolonged fast presumably came into vogue. With this practice, it was not unusual to hav...
متن کاملPreoperative fasting for paediatric anaesthesia
Sir,—I refer to the recent review by Phillips, Daborn and Hatch [1]. Between 1991 and 1993 the Department of Anaesthetics in Newcastle examined the problem of preoperative fasting intervals for children presenting for routine surgery. An initial audit revealed that many children were undergoing prolonged fasts before anaesthesia. After reviewing the literature [2], 8 clear fluid fast of 2 h was...
متن کامل[Preoperative fasting guidelines: an update].
Anesthesiology societies have issued various guidelines on preoperative fasting since 1990, not only to decrease the incidence of lung aspiration and anesthetic morbidity, but also to increase patient comfort prior to anesthesia. Some of these societies have been updating their guidelines, as such that, since 2010, we now have 2 evidence-based preoperative fasting guidelines available. In this ...
متن کاملPreoperative fasting for paediatric anaesthesia.
Preoperative fasting was introduced to reduce the risk and severity of aspiration pneumonitis. Adequate time (6h) must still be allowed before operation for solid foods to be emptied from the stomach. However, the overwhelming weight of evidence supports the practice of reducing the duration of the preoperative fluid fast for elective paediatric surgical patients [3, 15]. In children allowed fr...
متن کاملPreoperative fasting for paediatric anaesthesia
Sir,—I refer to the recent review by Phillips, Daborn and Hatch [1]. Between 1991 and 1993 the Department of Anaesthetics in Newcastle examined the problem of preoperative fasting intervals for children presenting for routine surgery. An initial audit revealed that many children were undergoing prolonged fasts before anaesthesia. After reviewing the literature [2], 8 clear fluid fast of 2 h was...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: AJN, American Journal of Nursing
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0002-936X
DOI: 10.1097/01.naj.0000410345.73039.bb