Preoperative fasting: is it time for a change?

Nurs Times. 2000 Apr 27;96(17 Suppl):14-5.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Fasting / adverse effects*
  • Gastric Emptying
  • Gastrointestinal Transit
  • Humans
  • Pneumonia, Aspiration / etiology
  • Pneumonia, Aspiration / prevention & control
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • Preoperative Care / adverse effects*
  • Preoperative Care / methods*
  • Preoperative Care / standards
  • Starvation / complications
  • Starvation / prevention & control
  • Time Factors