| Literature DB >> 22029210 |
Saleem Khoyratty1, A H Din, Rachel Spendlove, Melissa Teehan, Chanpreet Arhi, Bhavik N Modi, Katherine Brown, Alison Twigley, D Ravichandran.
Abstract
Patients awaiting surgery are often fasted preoperatively well in excess of the recommended fasting times. Educated perioperative practitioners were asked to discuss preoperative starvation with patients. Preoperative starvation period for clear fluids was significantly reduced from a mean of 8 hours 30 minutes in the original audit, to 6 hours 10 minutes in this study of 113 patients (p < 0.001). Improving patient understanding of preoperative fasting can increase compliance with fasting recommendations.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID： 22029210 DOI： 10.1177/175045891102100805
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Perioper Pract ISSN： 1750-4589