Starving Patients Before Cataract Surgery Under Regional Anesthesia: Needed or Not?

Anesth Analg. 2018 Dec;127(6):1448-1451. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000003504.

Authors

Edwin Seet¹, Chandra M Kumar¹, Tom Eke², Girish P Joshi³

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Anaesthesia, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Yishun Central 90, Singapore.
² Department of Ophthalmology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals, Norwich, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.

PMID: 29863606
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000003504

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Aged
Anesthesia, Conduction / adverse effects
Anesthesia, Conduction / methods*
Anesthesia, Conduction / standards
Anesthesiology / methods*
Anesthesiology / standards
Cataract Extraction*
Fasting*
Guidelines as Topic
Humans
Respiratory Aspiration / prevention & control*
Risk
Societies, Medical