Journal of clinical nursing
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Randomized Controlled Trial
The effect of preoperative fasting on postoperative thirst, hunger and oral intake in paediatric ambulatory tonsillectomy.
The aim of this prospective study was to examine whether preoperative face-to-face counselling about a child's fasting and active preoperative nutrition have an effect on thirst, hunger and postoperative oral intake in paediatric ambulatory tonsillectomy. Families, whose child was admitted for ambulatory tonsillectomy, participated in the study (n = 116; 58/58). ⋯ Clinical practice should take the child's perioperative fasting into account in a more accurate way in preoperative counselling of the parents.