Paediatric anaesthesia
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Paediatr Anaesth
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Paediatric anaesthesia · Aug 2017
Using quality improvement methods to reduce clear fluid fasting times in children on a preoperative ward.
We applied quality improvement (QI) methodology to identify the different aspects of why children fasted for prolonged periods in our institution. Our aim was for 75% of all children to be fasted for clear fluid for less than 4 hours. ⋯ By using established QI methodology we reduced the mean fluid fasting time for day admissions at our hospital to 3.1 hours and increased the proportion of children fasting for less than 4 hours from 19% to 72%.