Preoperative fasting before interventional techniques: is it necessary or evidence-based?
This study illustrates that postoperative nausea, vomiting, and respiratory depression are extremely rare and aspiration is almost nonexistent, despite almost all of the patients receiving sedation and without preoperative fasting prior to provision of the interventional techniques.
In healthy adolescent males and females, bone mass and bone density at skeletal maturity are inversely related to the timing of puberty.