Journal article
Starvation before surgery: is our practice based on evidence?
- Abstract:
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The misery articulated by patients denied their morning ‘cuppa’ before coming to hospital for surgery is long-established and apparently ineradicable. A recent (February 2016) small audit of 44 adult patients admitted for elective surgery in five specialties in Oxford found that they had been denied (or denied themselves) drink for an average of 9 h (range 2–24 h) and food for 14 h (range 6–22 h) before being anaesthetized. These data are similar to those acquired 3 years earlier in the same ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BJA Education Journal website
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 8
- Pages:
- 275–282
- Publication date:
- 2017-05-30
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-02-18
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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2058-5357 and 2058-5349
- Source identifiers:
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708932
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:708932
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uuid:a3907462-584c-4a53-85dd-01d1dd07d217
- Local pid:
- pubs:708932
- Deposit date:
- 2017-07-21
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- Copyright holder:
- Wilson and Dorrington
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Elsevier at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjaed/mkx009
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