Preoperative fasting for adults to prevent perioperative complications.

By M. Brady, S. Kinn, P. Stuart, V. Ness. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2003

676 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Physiology, Surgery

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In Physiology

1. K. Fearon
2. S. Bischoff

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1. O. Ljungqvist
2. K. Fearon
3. S. Bischoff
4. M. Soop

Citations in the corpus

• ESPEN Guidelines on Enteral Nutrition: Surgery including organ transplantation. (2006, background): “Since the implementation of these guidelines, there has been no report of a dramatic rise in the incidence of aspiration, regurgitation, or associated morbidity or mortality.(14)”
• ESPEN guideline: Clinical nutrition in surgery. (2017, background): “Exceptions to this recommendation are patients “at special risk”, undergoing emergency surgery, and thosewith known delayed gastric emptying for any reason [79] or gastro-oesophageal reflux [81 (1þþ).”
• ESPEN practical guideline: Clinical nutrition in surgery. (2021, background): “Preoperative intake of a carbohydrate drink with 800 ml the night before and 400ml before surgery does not increase the risk of aspiration [12,17,18].”
• Guidelines for Perioperative Care in Elective Colonic Surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) Society Recommendations (2012, methodology): “A meta-analyses including a Cochrane review of 22 RCTs showed that fasting from midnight does not reduce gastric content nor raises the pH of gastric fluid compared with patients allowed free intake of clear fluids until 2 h before anaesthesia for surgery [39, 40].”
• Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) for gastrointestinal surgery, part 2: consensus statement for anaesthesia practice (2015, background): “Results from two Cochrane meta-analyses have shown that gastric content of patients following anaesthesia fasting guidelines is the same or lower of the gastric content of patients fasting after midnight.(77,78) Imaging studies have further supported the safety of allowing clear fluids up to 2 h bef”