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 Committee on Standards and Practice Parameters

Anesthesiology. 2011 Mar;114(3):495-511. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181fcbfd9.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Guideline

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Antacids / therapeutic use
  • Antiemetics / therapeutic use
  • Cholinergic Antagonists / therapeutic use
  • Consensus
  • Elective Surgical Procedures*
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Fasting / physiology*
  • Female
  • Food
  • Gastric Acid / metabolism
  • Gastrointestinal Agents / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Infant Food
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Meta-Analysis as Topic
  • Milk, Human
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic*
  • Preoperative Care / standards*
  • Respiratory Aspiration / prevention & control*
  • Risk Assessment

Substances

  • Antacids
  • Antiemetics
  • Cholinergic Antagonists
  • Gastrointestinal Agents