The concept of preoperative overnight fasting was challenged and proved to have no benefits over allowing patients to drink clear fluids up until 2 h before surgery. This led to changes in the guidelines for preoperative fasting in many countries around the world. This concept has more recently been developed further. Mounting evidence indicates that instead of being operated in the traditional...

Post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is the secondmost common post-operative complication. Prolonged pre-operative fasting in Australia despite guidelines recommending reduced to improve patient outcomes, such as PONV. Commercially prepared preoperative oral carbohydrate (OC) drinks may be used reduce time. In this study commercial products were replaced with honey, an inexpensive food item.

BACKGROUND Fasting before general anaesthesia aims to reduce the volume and acidity of stomach contents during surgery, thus reducing the risk of regurgitation/aspiration. Recent guidelines have recommended a shift in fasting policy from the standard 'nil by mouth from midnight' approach to more relaxed policies which permit a period of restricted fluid intake up to a few hours before surgery. ...

OBJECTIVES 1) To assess the changes in body weight and body mass index in grade 2 and 3 obese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, pre and postoperatively; 2) to assess the changes in pre and postoperative fasting blood glucose, postprandial glucose, glycated hemoglobin and insulin. METHODS A prospective study was undertaken with 40 selected patients with grade 2 and 3 obesity and type 2 d...

The duration of preoperative fasting from solid food and liquids, a time-honoured anaesthetic practice, has been the subject of extensive clinical investigations [1,2], editorial comment [3] and speciality guidelines [4,5] in the past decade. Dr Pearse and colleagues’ study of current UK clinical practice relating to the duration of preoperative fasting of adult patients and compliance with ong...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the abbreviation of preoperative fasting with a drink containing glutamine and dextrinomaltose improves organic response to surgical trauma. METHODS Thirty-six female patients adult (18-62 years) candidates for elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy were randomly divided into three groups: conventional fasting (fasting group), and two groups receiving two diffe...

Objective: To assess the mean gastric fluid volume in group ingesting clear 8 hours prior to surgery (8-hour group) comparison liquid 2 (2-hour Study Design: Randomized controlled trial Place and Duration of Study: Department Anesthesiology, The Indus Hospital, Karachi from 30th June 2016to 20th May 2017. Methodology: Sixty eligible patients were identified preoperative visit all study detail w...