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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....
Autores principales: | Gebremedhn, Endale Gebreegziabher, Nagaratnam, Vidhya Bates |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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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