Position Statement: Clear Fluids Fasting for Elective Pediatric Anesthesia
3 Feb, 2019 | 13:44h | UTC
Related Guidelines: Practice Guidelines for Preoperative Fasting and the Use of Pharmacologic Agents to Reduce the Risk of Pulmonary Aspiration: Application to Healthy Patients Undergoing Elective Procedures: An Updated Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Preoperative Fasting and the Use of Pharmacologic Agents to Reduce the Risk of Pulmonary Aspiration (free) AND Perioperative fasting in adults and children: guidelines from the European Society of Anaesthesiology (free)
Related Systematic Review: Practice Guideline Recommendations on Perioperative Fasting – Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (free)
Related Narrative Review: Nothing by Mouth at Midnight: Saving or Starving? A Literature Review – Gastroenterology Nursing (free)
“‘It is safe and recommended for all children able to take clear fluids, to be allowed and encouraged to have them up to 1 h before elective general anaesthesia’.”