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Perioperative management of a paediatric patient on the ketogenic diet
Author(s) -
Mcneely James K.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
pediatric anesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.704
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1460-9592
pISSN - 1155-5645
DOI - 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2000.00459.x
Subject(s) - medicine , ketogenic diet , perioperative , intractable epilepsy , refractory (planetary science) , anesthesia , epilepsy , pediatrics , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , physics , astrobiology
Summary The ketogenic diet has become commonplace for the treatment of paediatric patients with refractory epilepsy. I describe the perioperative management of a patient on the ketogenic diet. The basis, complications and anaesthetic implications of the diet are discussed.