Fasting Guidelines
This article was published in:
CEACCP 2006 Vol 6 No 6 pp215-218
Summary:
This article discusses two main risk factors for gastric aspiration – gastric residual volume and gastric pH. It also outlines appropriate fasting guidelines for fluids, breast milk and food, in elective patients. It emphasizes that asking all patients to ‘fast from midnight’ is no longer advised.Suggest use hospital or ANZCA online library access: With CEACCP you will require a user name and password which is alongside “CEACCP” in your library of professional association login.
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