Obesity

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Obesity in childhood

Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity

Cook-Sather SD, Gallagher PR, Kruge LE, et al. Overweight/obesity and gastric fluid characteristics in pediatric day surgery: implications for fasting guidelines and pulmonary aspiration risk. AnesthAnalg. 9/2009 2009;109(3):727-736. Not in File.

Schreiner MS. Gastric fluid volume: is it really a risk factor for pulmonary aspiration? Anesthesia and analgesia. Oct 1998;87(4):754-6. doi:10.1097/00000539-199810000-00002