Welcome
Welcome to this resource about perioperative fasting from the Royal College of Nursing.
Our aim is to improve care for patients and reduce variations in clinical practice.
The resource offers support to all those involved in this effort. It brings together what we know from the evidence on this topic and guidance on how to put this knowledge into practice.
The national clinical guideline on perioperative fasting has been produced by the Royal College of Nursing in collaboration with key organisations for use in the NHS and the independent sector.
The national guideline provides recommendations for good practice, based upon the best available evidence of clinical effectiveness, and is intended to provide key source material for developing local guidelines.
This guideline has been endorsed by:
- Royal College of Anaesthetists
- Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
- Royal College of Midwives
- Preoperative Association
- British Association of Day Surgery