Prolonged starvation in paediatric surgery
- 1 May 1995
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Anaesthesia
- Vol. 50 (5) , 458-460
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1995.tb06005.x
Abstract
An evaluation of the pre-operative preparation of 285 children attending Sheffield Children's Hospital for elective surgery showed that prolonged and unnecessary starvation takes place, particularly in children over 1 year of age who have their operation in the morning. Excessive starvation of children is unkind and unnecessary. In order to prevent it a revision of current starvation guidelines is required.Keywords
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