Pre-Procedural Fasting

Pre-procedural fasting for coronary interventions: is it time to change practice?
Tahir Hamid, Qaiser Aleem, Yeecheng Lau, Ravi Singh, John McDonald, John E Macdonald, Sanjay Sastry, Sanjay Arya, Anthony Bainbridge, Telal Mudawi, Kanarath Balachandran

Heart Apr 2014, 100 (8) 658-661; DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2013-305289

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