ArticleBritish journal of anaesthesia2025
Preoperative fasting in paediatric anaesthesia: a movie with a predicable ending.
Article in British journal of anaesthesia, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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Abstract
A large international prospective pragmatic study (EUROFAST), analysing more than 306 900 anaesthetic procedures across 31 centres, compared the incidence of pulmonary aspiration in children after three different clear fluid fasting regimens: traditional fasting (≥2 h before induction of anaesthesia), ≥1 h fasting before induction and sip-til-send. EUROFAST provided further evidence supporting the safety of liberal fasting times by demonstrating that the incidence of confirmed pulmonary aspiration with fasting durations of ≥1 h is not higher than that observed with a ≥2 h fasting period. EUROFAST provided additional evidence to support changes in practice for institutions that still adhere to the outdated 6-4-2 fasting regimen by adopting a more modern approach of ≥1 h fasting or sip-til-send.
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