Modern fasting guidelines in children

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 471-481

  Cook Sather, Scott D ^a   Litman, Ronald S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

anesthesia; aspiration pneumonitis; children; fasting; gastric fluid volume; infants; pediatric; pneumonia

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; SEVOFLURANE;

ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ARTIFICIAL MILK; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BREAST MILK; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIET RESTRICTION; EXPERIENCE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFANT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PARENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; STOMACH CONTENT; STOMACH JUICE; STOMACH VOLUME;

CHILD; FASTING; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 33748271913     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2006.02.003     Document Type: Review

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