Unrestricted drinking before surgery: a structured patient interview

Our recent study [1] showed that unrestricted drinking before surgery, and its implementation using fasting cards, shortened the median pre-operative liquid fasting time to 2.1 h. Although adherence to the guidelines was significantly improved, critics questioned whether patients drink too much liquid immediately before induction of anaesthesia. Therefore, we evaluated our study data regarding patients’ drinking behaviour. In the third PDSA cycle [1], 25 weeks after the implementation of fasting cards, 143 patients underwent a structured interview. The results are summarised in Table 1. On the day of surgery, 130 (91%) patients had drunk at least 100 ml of liquid or at least 2 ml.kg 1 if they were children. The minimum time interval between drinking clear liquids and

• Publication year

  2023

• Venue

  Anaesthesia

• Publication date

  2023-03-16

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1111/anae.15997PMID 36929501
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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