Sip, don't skip: implementing 1-hour fasting in paediatric anaesthesia. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2026; 136: 812-15

Rodrigo Poves-Álvarez; Beatriz Martínez-Rafael; Eduardo Tamayo; Estefanía Gómez-Pesquera

doi:10.1016/j.bja.2026.03.041

Sip, don't skip: implementing 1-hour fasting in paediatric anaesthesia. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2026; 136: 812-15

Br J Anaesth. 2026 Apr 29:S0007-0912(26)00259-X. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.03.041. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Rodrigo Poves-Álvarez¹, Beatriz Martínez-Rafael², Eduardo Tamayo², Estefanía Gómez-Pesquera²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology, University Clinical Hospital of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain; BioCritic. Group for Biomedical Research in Critical Care Medicine, Valladolid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Department of Surgery, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain; Valladolid Health Research Institute (IBioVALL), Valladolid, Spain. Electronic address: rpoves@saludcastillayleon.es.
² Department of Anaesthesiology, University Clinical Hospital of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain; BioCritic. Group for Biomedical Research in Critical Care Medicine, Valladolid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Department of Surgery, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain; Valladolid Health Research Institute (IBioVALL), Valladolid, Spain.

PMID: 42062151
DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.03.041

No abstract available

Keywords: clear liquids; emergence delirium; ketonaemia; paediatric anaesthesia; perioperative haemodynamics; preoperative fasting; quality improvement.

Publication types

Letter