Preoperative fasting in children

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 80-89

  Splinter, William M ^a   Schreiner, Mark S ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST MILK; CHEWING GUM; DIET RESTRICTION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IRRITABILITY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH JUICE; STOMACH SUCTION; STOMACH VOLUME;

CHILD; FASTING; GASTRIC EMPTYING; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INFANT, NEWBORN; MILK, HUMAN; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREANESTHETIC MEDICATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0033009714     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199907000-00015     Document Type: Review

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