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Preoperative 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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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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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...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 1984
ISSN: 0007-0912
DOI: 10.1093/bja/56.8.925