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What to do if your child is wearing…

Jewelry Glasses

• Remove them before coming to the hospital. • Bring them the day of the surgery.

If your child wears
contact lenses, remove
them before you come
and bring his glasses.

A hearing aid Dental appliance

• Bring it on the day of the operation. • Follow the advice given by the anesthetist.
To remove at the entry in the operating room.

Fasting Following the recommendations of French anesthetists

The day before the operation

• Usual dinner.

The day of surgery

• Last meal “solid” food or second age infant formula > fi nished 6 h before surgery.

• Last meal breast milk or fi rst age infant formula > fi nished 4 h before surgery.

• Drinking a translucent liquid > allowed up to 1 h before surgery
(only: non-sparkling water, syrup with water, apple juice or grape juice)

- 6 h - 4 h - 1 h Surgery

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You will be told what time the last meal (or drink) they can is have depending on the time of the operation.

Why? Being in a fasted state means not eating for several hours before the operation.
This timeframe means the child can have their operation in complete safety: if food
is still in the stomach during an anaesthetic, in case of vomiting it may go into the !
lungs, which can be very serious.

Instructions written by non-profi t organization SPARADRAP, French Society of Anesthesia and Intensive Care and the Association of French Speaking Pediatric Anesthetists

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