Are you hungry? Are you thirsty? - Fasting times in elective outpatient pediatric patients

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 964-968

  Engelhardt, Thomas ^a   Wilson, Graham ^a   Horne, Lesley ^a   Weiss, Markus ^b   Schmitz, Achim ^b  

^a ROYAL ABERDEEN CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

fasting; hunger; pediatrics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BREAST MILK; CHILD; DIET RESTRICTION; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG ASPIRATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTPATIENT CARE; PEDIATRICS; PERCEPTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; STARVATION; STOMACH CONTENT; THIRST;

ADOLESCENT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FASTING; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; HUNGER; MALE; PARENTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RESPIRATORY ASPIRATION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; THIRST; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960950494     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2011.03573.x     Document Type: Article

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