Preoperative Fasting

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2023 American Society of Anesthesiologists Practice Guidelines for Preoperative Fasting: Carbohydrate-containing Clear Liquids with or without Protein, Chewing Gum, and Pediatric Fasting Duration—A Modular Update of the 2017 American Society of Anesthesiologists Practice Guidelines for Preoperative Fasting*

Preoperative fasting in children: review of existing guidelines and recent developments

Preoperative Fluid Fasting Times and Postinduction Low Blood Pressure in Children: A Retrospective Analysis

Guideline on anaesthesia and sedation in breastfeeding women 2020

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

UpToDate: Preoperative fasting in children and infants

https://anesthesiology.pubs.asahq.org/article.aspx?articleid=2766509

https://bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(21)00111-2/fulltext

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12630-019-01382-z

https://anesthesiology.pubs.asahq.org/article.aspx?articleid=2766011

From PAAD

Preoperative fasting in children

The rationale for the recommendations of the European Paediatric Fasting Guideline: Improving paediatric anaesthesia and perioperative medicine

Pre-operative fasting in children: A guideline from the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care

Canadian Pediatric Anesthesia Society statement on clear fluid fasting for elective pediatric anesthesia

Anesthesia & Breastfeeding: More Often Than Not, They Are Compatible

Ultrasound Insights into Neonatal Fasting: Get in the NP-Know

ABM Clinical Protocol #15: Analgesia and Anesthesia for the Breastfeeding Mother, Revised 2017

The thirst for improvement: ensuring shorter and safer pre-operative fasting times in children

Effect of a carbohydrate lollipop on the gastric volume of fasted pediatric patients

Relationship between Fasting Times and Emergence Delirium in Children Undergoing Magnetic Resonance Imaging under Sedation

Acute Intraoperative Pulmonary Aspiration

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. Anesthesiology. 2017 Mar;126(3):376-393.

Frykholm P, Disma N, Andersson H, Beck C, Bouvet L, Cercueil E, Elliott E, Hofmann J, Isserman R, Kaucane A, Kuhn F, de Queiroz Siqueira M, Rosen D, Rudolph D, Schmidt AR, Schmitz A, Stocki D, Sumpelmann R, Stricker PA, Thomas M, Veyckemans F, Afshari A. Preoperative fasting in children: guideline from the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care. Eur J Anaesthesiol 2022; 39:4–25.

Disma N, Frykholm P, Cook-Sather SD, Lerman J. Pro-con debate: 1- vs. 2-hour fast for clear liquids before anesthesia in children. Anesth Anal 2021; 133:581-91.

Ultrasound Assessment of Gastric Fluid Volume in Children Scheduled for Elective Surgery After Clear Fluid Fasting for 1 Versus 2 Hours: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Ultrasound Assessment of Gastric Fluid Volume in Children Scheduled for Elective Surgery After Clear Fluid Fasting for 1 Versus 2 Hours: A Randomized Controlled Trial

1. Joshi GP, Abdelmalak BB, Weigel WA, et al. 2023 American Society of Anesthesiologists Practice Guidelines for Preoperative Fasting: Carbohydrate-containing Clear Liquids with or without Protein, Chewing Gum, and Pediatric Fasting Duration-A Modular Update of the 2017 American Society of Anesthesiologists Practice Guidelines for Preoperative Fasting. Anesthesiology. Feb 1 2023;138(2):132-151. doi:10.1097/aln.0000000000004381

2. Frykholm P, Disma N, Andersson H, et al. Pre-operative fasting in children: A guideline from the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care. European journal of anaesthesiology. Jan 1 2022;39(1):4-25. doi:10.1097/eja.0000000000001599

3. Sarhan KA, Hasaneen H, Hasanin A, Mohammed H, Saleh R, Kamel A. Ultrasound Assessment of Gastric Fluid Volume in Children Scheduled for Elective Surgery After Clear Fluid Fasting for 1 Versus 2 Hours: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Anesthesia and analgesia. Apr 1 2023;136(4):711-718. doi:10.1213/ane.0000000000006157

4. Yaster M, Galinkin J, Schreiner M. An Introduction to the Ethical Design, Conduct, and Analysis of Pediatric Clinical Trials. In: Andropolous D, Gregory G, eds. Gregory's Pediatric Anesthesia. 6th ed. Wiley-Blackwell; 2020:56-74:chap 4.

5. Schmitz A, Schmidt AR. Can we use ultrasound examination of gastric content as a diagnostic test in clinical anaesthesia? Pediatric Anesthesia. 2019;29(2):112-113. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/pan.13555

6. Roberts RB, Shirley MA. Reducing the risk of acid aspiration during cesarean section. Anesthesia and analgesia. Nov-Dec 1974;53(6):859-68. doi:10.1213/00000539-197453060-00010

7. Raidoo DM, Rocke DA, Brock-Utne JG, Marszalek A, Engelbrecht HE. Critical volume for pulmonary acid aspiration: reappraisal in a primate model. British journal of anaesthesia. Aug 1990;65(2):248-50. doi:10.1093/bja/65.2.248