Society guideline links: Preoperative fasting

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Preoperative medical evaluation and risk assessment" and "Society guideline links: Pediatric anesthesia".)

International

●International Committee for the Advancement of Procedural Sedation (ICAPS): An international multidisciplinary consensus statement on fasting before procedural sedation in adults and children (2020)

Canada

●Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society (CAS): Guidelines to the practice of anesthesia, revised edition (2023)

United States

●American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA): Practice guidelines for preoperative fasting – Carbohydrate-containing clear liquids with or without protein, chewing gum, and pediatric fasting duration: A modular update of the 2017 ASA practice guidelines for preoperative fasting (2023)

•ASA: Practice guidelines for preoperative fasting and the use of pharmacologic agents to reduce the risk of pulmonary aspiration – Application to healthy patients undergoing elective procedures, update (2017)

●American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP): Guidelines for sedation and fasting status of patients undergoing interventional pain management procedures (2019)

Europe

●European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC): A guideline on pre-operative fasting in children (2022)

●European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN): Practical guideline on clinical nutrition in surgery (2021)

●Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (APAGBI), European Society for Paediatric Anaesthesiology (ESPA), and L'Association Des Anesthésistes-Réanimateurs Pédiatriques d'Expression Française (ADARPEF): Consensus statement on clear fluids fasting for elective pediatric general anesthesia (2018)

United Kingdom

●Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (APAGBI), European Society for Paediatric Anaesthesiology (ESPA), and L'Association Des Anesthésistes‐Réanimateurs Pédiatriques d'Expression Française (ADARPEF): Consensus statement on clear fluids fasting for elective pediatric general anesthesia (2018)

Australia–New Zealand

●Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA): Guideline on pre-anaesthesia consultation and patient preparation (2021)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists (JSA): Preoperative fasting guidelines (2012)