Preoperative Fasting
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Guidelines:
2023 Canadian Pediatric Anesthesia Society Statement on fasting for elective pediatric anesthesia
Preoperative fasting in children: review of existing guidelines and recent developments
Guideline on anaesthesia and sedation in breastfeeding women 2020
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
Preoperative fasting in children
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
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.
Determining residual gastric volume in healthy children using ultrasound
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
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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
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