The rationale for the recommendations of the European Paediatric Fasting Guideline: Improving paediatric anaesthesia and perioperative medicine

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¹ From the Department of Surgical Sciences, Section of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (PF), Unit for Research & Innovation, Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia, Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy (ND), Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care, Emergency medicine and Pain Medicine, University Hospitals of Wuerzburg, Germany (PK) and Department of Pediatric and Obstetric Anaesthesia, University of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Denmark (AA).

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Peter Frykholm et al. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2022.

. 2022 Jan 1;39(1):1-3.

doi: 10.1097/EJA.0000000000001587.

¹ From the Department of Surgical Sciences, Section of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (PF), Unit for Research & Innovation, Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia, Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy (ND), Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care, Emergency medicine and Pain Medicine, University Hospitals of Wuerzburg, Germany (PK) and Department of Pediatric and Obstetric Anaesthesia, University of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Denmark (AA).

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Pre-operative fasting in children: A guideline from the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care.
Frykholm P, Disma N, Andersson H, Beck C, Bouvet L, Cercueil E, Elliott E, Hofmann J, Isserman R, Klaucane A, Kuhn F, de Queiroz Siqueira M, Rosen D, Rudolph D, Schmidt AR, Schmitz A, Stocki D, Sümpelmann R, Stricker PA, Thomas M, Veyckemans F, Afshari A. Frykholm P, et al. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2022 Jan 1;39(1):4-25. doi: 10.1097/EJA.0000000000001599. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2022. PMID: 34857683

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