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Normal blood glucose concentration within the age specific normal range.
Blood glucose homeostasis is important for ensuring a continuing energy supply and stable plasma osmolality. Small infants have reduced glycogen storage capacity and hence have a limited ability to maintain blood glucose concentrations during periods of fasting.
Acute and chronic changes in blood glucose concentrations have significant consequences to the perioperative outcome.
- hemodynamic instability
- coma, death
- polyuria and dehydration and
- seizures, death
Prevention and treatment
- awareness of fasting and nutrition status of the patient, minimize preoperative fasting times
- perioperative (surgical) stress reduction (analgesia and body temperature control)
- situation appropriate monitoring (neonates, critically ill children) and investigations
- consider isotonic glucose containing perioperative intravenous solutions especially in preterm, neonates and small infants, patient on total parental nutrition (TPN) and critically ill patients
- patients with inherited and acquired endocrine or glucose dependent metabolic disorders require special attention and workup
- prompt and appropriate treatment of significant hypo- and hyperglycemia
- Sümpelmann R, Becke K, Brenner S, Breschan C, Eich C, Höhne C, Jöhr M, Kretz FJ, Marx G, Pape L, Schreiber M, Strauss J, Weiss M. Perioperative intravenous fluid therapy in children: guidelines from the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany. Paediatr Anaesth. 2017 Jan;27(1):10-18.
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