Audit on Preoperative Fasting of Elective Surgical Patients in an African Academic Medical Center

BACKGROUND: Preoperative fasting is a requisite before anesthesia. The main reason for preoperative fasting is to reduce gastric volume and acidity and thus decrease the risk of pulmonary aspiration. However, preoperative fasting is usually prolonged beyond the recommended time for various reasons....

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Autores principales: Gebremedhn, Endale Gebreegziabher, Nagaratnam, Vidhya Bates
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4124256/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24748347
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00268-014-2582-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4124256/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24748347
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00268-014-2582-3

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