Pyloric Stenosis Guideline Recap

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Dr. Meera Kotagal discusses the preoperative and post-operative management of pyloric stenosis. These guidelines are currently followed at Cincinnati Children's Hospital (January 2019) as guided by the following studies:

• Dalton BGA, et al. Optimizing fluid resuscitation in hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. J Pediatr Surg 2016;51(8):1279-1282. 

• Markel TA, et al. A randomized trial to assess advancement of enteral feeds following surgery for hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. J Pediatr Surg 2017;52(4):534-539.
• Adibe OO, et al. Protocol versus ad libitum feeds after laparoscopic pyloromyotomy: A prospective randomized trial. J Pediatr Surg 2014;49(1):129-132. 
• Graham KA, et al. A review of postoperative feeding regimens in infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. J Pediatr Surg 2013;48:2175-2179. 

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