Anesthetic care of a child receiving a ketogenic diet

• Main Authors: R. Kidwell (Author), J. D. Tobias (Author)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: Pediatric Anesthesia and Critical Care Journal, 2021-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The ketogenic diet (KD) is an alternative or supplemen- tary treatment to medically refractory epilepsy and has been used successfully in pediatric patients for more than 100 years. The high fat, low carbohydrate intake of the KD induces a state of ketosis which may result in anti- convulsant effect...