Why the study?
Does the type of pre-operative fluid (glucose, low-fat milk, breast milk) affect gastric emptying time and residual volume/pH compared to midnight fasting in children ≤ 5 years?
Population
60 ASA grade I children ≤ 5 years of age
Comparison
Orange-flavoured glucose, low-fat milk, and… vs Midnight fast (group IV)
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
up to 3 hours
Authors
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May support shorter fasting for glucose and low-fat milk before pediatric anesthesia; leaves open optimal breast-milk timing pending randomized trials.
Does the type of pre-operative fluid (glucose, low-fat milk, breast milk) affect gastric emptying time and residual volume/pH compared to midnight fasting in children ≤ 5 years?
Glucose and low-fat milk can be safely given to children 2 and 3 hours before anesthesia, respectively, whereas breast milk requires further study.
Sethi et al. (1999) studied this question.
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